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Index 2012: Volume 137, Parts 1–12

2 The Garden | Index 2012

Numbers in bold before the page number(s) denote the part number (month). Each part is paginated individually.

Numbers in italics denote a picture or illustration.

Where a plant has a Selling Name (also known as a trade designation) it is typeset in a different font to distinguish it from the cultivar name (shown in ‘Single Quotes’), which by law must be shown on plant labelling.

AAbelia:

chinensis 10: 63‘China Rose’ 10: 64

Aberconway, 3rd Lord 5: 90

Abies firma painted by Kimiyo Maruyama 3: 79

Acanthus ‘Whitewater’ 8: 12, 12

Acer:for smaller gardens 11: 39

capillipes 11: 36griseum 11: 37, 40, 40

stems 1: 64–65maximowiczianum 11: 39

palmatum var. dissectum Dissectum Viride Group 11: 37

‘Ōsakazuki’ 11: 36, 37‘Sango-kaku’ 11: 36–38, 37

pseudosieboldianum 11: 39

tataricum subsp. ginnala 11: 39

Achillea:

‘Moonshine’ 9: 55sibirica subsp. camschatica ‘Love Parade’ 6: 47

acocha 9: 51Aconitum ‘Bressingham Spire’ 9: 55

acorn squash 10: 45Actinidia:

arguta 3: 46‘Issai’ 3: 46

Aegopodium podagraria 11: 31, 31

Aeonium ‘Logan Rock’ 5: 16, 16

Aesculus:horse chestnut leaf blotch 7: 28, 28

horse chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) 7: 28

control 1: 16–17; 2: 9damage 7: 28its origins 12: 29

Agapanthus ‘Aimee’ 4: 54, 54

Agapetes ‘Ludgvan Cross’ 8: 64–65, 67

Agastache:‘Blue Fortune’ 6: 46‘Bolero’ 9: 12, 12

Agave montana 8: 65age and gardening, by Sir Roy Strong 10: 21reader response 12: 15

AGM (for the award, see Award of Garden Merit and also AGM plants panel; for the Annual General Meeting, see RHS panel)

AH (see Associate of Honour)

Ajuga reptans 3: 72, 72Alam, Muhammad: his unusual vegetable crops 9: 51, 51

Alder, Fern (11: 52): her front gardens initiative in Rochester, Kent 11: 52–53

Alexander, Paul, on: replacing peat in horticulture 1: 68–71

reader response 4: 17algae on evergreens 12: 27, 27

alien plants: the contribution of

gardens, by David Pearman (e Garden, Dec 2011, p19):

reader response 2: 17Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) view of their threat and cost 3: 16

Allium:planting 2: 26cepa Aggregatum Group (see shallot)

lusitanicum 8: 14‘Red Mohican’ 9: 12, 12

allotments:making the most of, by Lia Leendertz 6: 19

their cost-effectiveness, by Emma Bond 8: 20

reader response 10: 17

Allum, David, and Christina Shand (10: 54): their Pembrokeshire garden 10: 54–57

alpine house, RHS Garden Harlow Carr: its unusual plants, by Kaye Griffiths 2: 69–71

alpines outdoors: cultivation 2: 71

Amaranthus as vegetable (see callaloo)

Amaryllis belladonna 7: 31, 31

Ambrosius, Peter 3: 69Amelanchier:

alnifolia ‘Obelisk’ 11: 39x grandiflora ‘Autumn Brilliance’ 11: 39

lamarckii 11: 39Ammal, EK Janaki 4: 36Amorphophallus konjac 3: 44–45

amphibians in garden ponds 8: 76

Anchusa root cuttings 11: 83, 83

Anderton, Stephen, on: snowdrops at Colesbourne Park, Gloucs 2: 52–56

Andrews, Susyn: award of Veitch Memorial Medal 7: 12

Andropogon gerardii 8: 14Androsace lanuginosa 2: 71

Anemanthele lessoniana 10: 52

Anemone sylvestris 4: 65, 68purple-stemmed 3: 45

Anglesey Abbey, Cambs:its Winter Walk, by Simon Garbutt 1: 64–67

letter from John Sales on its design 3: 16

Annual General Meeting, RHS 8: 83

Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2011/12, RHS: summary, by Elizabeth Banks 6: 80–81

ants 6: 27feeding on nectary 9: 15

aphids 7: 41, 41fruit 3: 28, 28on evergreens 12: 27

Apium graveolens var. rapaceum (see celeriac)

apomicts 10: 26apple(s):

bitter pit 10: 25, 25curled leaves 6: 22–23powdery mildew (Podosphaera leucotricha) 6: 22, 22

replanting at National Plant Collection, Brogdale Farm, Kent 3: 12

rosy apple aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea) 6: 22, 23

scab (Venturia

inaequalis) 10: 25, 25when to harvest 10: 22‘Ashmead’s Kernel’ 10: 44

‘Baker’s Delicious’ 3: 10, 10

‘Charles Ross’ 3: 28Clocaenog apple 3: 10‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ 3: 28

‘Discovery’ 3: 28; 10: 44, 45

‘Egremont Russet’ 3: 28‘Flower of Kent’ 8: 11‘Mother’ 2: 33un-named new cultivar for London 11: 11

apprenticeships in horticulture 4: 23

Aquilegia:adaptation to specific pollinators 2: 9

correction 4: 10saximontana 2: 71

Aralia cordata as a vegetable 3: 45–46

Arbury, Jim (8: 70), on: the Wisley plum collection 8: 70

Arbutus:x reyorum ‘Marina’ 10: 64

unedo 9: 22f. rubra 10: 65

Arceuthobium oxycedri 12: 64

Ardle, Jon (11: 39), on:autumn colour: the underlying chemistry 11: 39

bamboos for smaller gardens 11: 64–69

Hosta 7: 72–75Argyranthemum:

AGM plants 7: 44–45cultivation 7: 45National Plant Collection 7: 42

RHS trial, by Roy Cheek 7: 42–45

callichrysum ‘Étoile d’Or’ 7: 42

Cherry Love (‘Supacher’) (Daisy Crazy Series) 7: 43, 44

‘Cornish Gold’ 7: 45frutescens subsp. canariae 7: 44

gracile ‘Chelsea Girl’ 7: 44, 45

haemotomma 7: 42, 44‘Jamaica Primrose’ 7: 42, 45

LaRita Banana Split (‘Kleaf10067’) (LaRita Series) 7: 43, 44

LaRita White Beauty (‘Kleaf07028’) (LaRita Series) 7: 43, 45

‘Levada Cream’ 7: 43, 45Madeira Cherry Red (‘Bonmadcher’) (Madeira Series) 7: 43, 44

Madeira Crested Pink (Madeira Series) 7: 44

Madeira Violet (Madeira Series) 7: 43, 44

Meteor Red (‘Supa742’) (Daisy Crazy Series) 7: 44

Molimba L Duplo White/Rose (‘Argysedou’) (Molimba Series) 7: 43, 44

Molimba XL Watermelon (‘Argymowat’) (Molimba Series) 7: 43, 44

‘Petite Pink’ 7: 44‘Snow Storm’ 7: 43, 45‘Starlight’ 7: 43, 44Sultan’s Lemon (‘Supalem’) (Daisy Crazy Series) 7: 43, 44, 45

‘Summer Stars’ (Daisy Crazy Series) 7: 43, 44

Summit Peppermint (Daisy Crazy Series) 7: 43, 44

‘Vancouver’ 7: 42‘Whiteknights’ 7: 43, 45

Arisaema:by Phil Clayton 7: 70–71cultivation 7: 70–71planting partners 7: 71candidissimum 7: 70, 70

concinnum 7: 71costatum 7: 71griffithii 7: 70, 71, 71ringens 7: 71serratum var. mayebarae 7: 71

sikokianum 7: 71, 71

1 January 2012 2 February 2012 3 March 2012 4 April 2012 5 May 2012 6 June 2012

Index 2012

ANALYSIS botany degrees:

disappearance of, by Sally Nex 1: 13


bringing new people into horticulture, by Anisa Gress 4: 22–23

Olympic Park plantings, by Anisa Gress 8: 14

wildflower seeds, increasing sales of, by Sally Nex 10: 12

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Succeed with Helleborus niger GROW THE BEST SHALLOTS

Witch hazels for seasonal scent REDUCING PEAT USE IN GARDENING

SIMPLE WINTER PLANTING IDEAS

taken from the Winter Walk at

Anglesey Abbey

Iris forIris forIris forwınter

colour

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ALL IN THE MIX Ensuring a successful peat-free start for your seeds and cuttings

RHS TRIAL: WHICH LOBELIA TO CHOOSE

Vegetables to get growing this month

SUCCEED WITH HIPPEASTRUM

Welcome to the

snowdrop season

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GardenThe

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GROW YOUR OWN Small vegetables for limited spaces

� rough the seasons at Tom Stuart-Smith's private garden

� rough the seasons

On home ground

PLANTS ON CANVAS: CELEBRATING BOTANICAL ART

How to succeed with auriculas

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LIVING GARDENS Why your garden is vital for wildlife

headlineHeavenlyHeavenlymagnoliasSTRAWBERRY GROWING DIVIDING PERENNIALS

Dahlias in containers for fi ne summer displays

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GardenThe

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BUSY LIZZIE DOWNY

MILDEW How to spot it

and what to grow instead

The 25 best bearded iris

Radishes to pep up this summer's salads

1952–2012: CELEBRATING OUR ROYAL PATRON

GROWING GARDEN ORCHIDS

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TheGardenRHS GUIDANCE FOR GARDENING WITHOUT A HOSEPIPE

Growing chard and leaf beet

PLUS YORKSHIRE NURSERY VISIT WITH ROY LANCASTER

of roses

SOLOMON’S SEALS: SHADE

LOVERS TO CHERISH

of rosesof rosesof rosessummer summer summer

Enjoy a

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Index 2012 | The Garden 3

Armitage – beans, climbing French

7 July 2012 8 August 2012 9 September 2012 10 October 2012 11 November 2012 12 December 2012

speciosum 7: 71, 71Armitage, James (9: 21), on:Geranium phaeum 5: 47–50

Gunnera 9: 47–49plant name changes 9: 21

Aronia:National Plant Collection 12: 9

x prunifolia ‘Viking’ edible berries 3: 43

art, recent botanical, by Ian Hodgson 3: 77–80

Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’ 5: 16

artichoke:globe (see also Cynara cardunculus)

as a perennial crop 10: 26

Jerusalem, as a perennial crop 10: 26

Arum italicum subsp. italicum ‘Marmoratum’ 1: 67; 98, 98

ash, ash dieback (see Fraxinus)

ash (residue) as a source of potassium, by Matthew Biggs 10: 17

asparagus:as a perennial crop 10: 26

‘Connover’s Colossal’ 5: 138, 138

Japanese (see Aralia cordata)

Asperula taurina subsp. caucasica 6: 47

Associate of Honour awards 7: 12

Aster:x frikartii ‘Mönch’ 12: 44‘Little Carlow’ 10: 50novi-belgii 9: 22

Astilbe ‘Sprite’ 9: 55astrantia leaf miner (Phytomyza astrantiae) 4: 31

aubergine(s):cultivation outdoors 3: 26

for smaller spaces under glass 3: 65

recommended 3: 26‘Bonica’ 3: 26

‘Calliope’ 3: 26‘Fairy Tale’ 3: 26‘Kermit’ 3: 26‘Ping Tung Long’ 3: 26‘Rima’ 3: 26‘Scorpio’ 3: 26

Aubriet, Claude 3: 80auriculas (see Primula)Austin, David: letter on new rose introductions 10: 16

autumn:Autumn Planting for Year Round Colour, RHS initiative 10: 8

bulbs 7: 31; 10: 41colour:

for smaller gardens, by Stephen Lacey 11: 34–40

the underlying chemistry 11: 39

flavours 10: 44–45plantings:

bare-root perennials 10: 40

bedding 10: 41by Chris Young 10: 15by Nigel Colborn 10: 21

by Toby Buckland 10: 36–41

hedges 10: 39new roses 10: 38shrubs 10: 38soft and bush fruit 10: 40

trees 10: 37pond care 9: 29

Award of Garden Merit (AGM; see also AGM Plants panel) 5: 100Argyranthemum 7: 44–45

broad beans 3: 75celeriac 9: 39gooseberries 10: 24leaf beet and chard 6: 55Lobelia erinus 2: 51new RHS hardiness ratings 8: 11

second 10-yearly review 2: 9

awards and honours, RHS 7: 122013 ceremony and nominations 9: 79

Bback gardens in small spaces, ideas for 11: 48–51

Bacon, Nicholas 8: 83badgers, albino (letter on) 12: 14

balance of nature in gardens 5: 71

balcony garden in South Kensington 11: 46–47

Balmforth, Elizabeth (1: 80), on: plans for 2012 at RHS Garden Harlow Carr 1: 80

Baloskion tetraphyllum (see Restio tetraphyllus)

bamboo:

as hedging 11: 67black (see Phyllostachys nigra)

controlling 5: 32combinations 11: 66, 67cultivation 5: 32for smaller gardens, by Jon Ardle 11: 64–69

growth 11: 66in pots 11: 28, 67positioning 11: 68pruning 5: 32; 11: 67restricting spread of 11: 66–67

Banks, Elizabeth (6: 81; 8: 83; 9: 79), on: Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2011/12: summary 6: 80–81

Banks, Sir Joseph 4: 35; 9: 44

barberry (see Berberis)bare-root perennials: autumn planting 10: 40

bark, composted 1: 48Barn, ¬e, Bedmond, Herts 3: 32–38

Barney, Paul (3: 44): unusual fruit and vege-tables at his Berkshire nursery 3: 43–46

Barron, Pattie, on: Karla and Andrew Newell’s courtyard garden, Brighton, Sussex 11: 54–55

Barter, Guy (5: 62), on:hardening off 5: 62–63root cuttings 11: 81–83

bat boxes 2: 27, 27Bayer Provado Ultimate Bug Killer (letter on) 7: 18

Be Plant Wise campaign 3: 16

beans:for smaller outdoor spaces 3: 64

broad:AGM plants 3: 75aphids 3: 26, 26chocolate spot 3: 26cultivation 3: 74harvesting 3: 74pests and diseases 3: 26

RHS trial, by Sue Stickland 3: 74–75

rust 3: 26, 26‘Aquadulce Claudia’ 3: 74, 75

‘Cambridge Scarlet’ 3: 75

‘Crimson Flowered’ 3: 74, 75

‘Dreadnought’ 3: 75, 75

extra precoce a grano violetto 10: 46

‘Giant Exhibition’ 3: 75, 75

‘Imperial Green Longpod’ 3: 75

‘Jade’ 3: 74‘Jubilee Hysor’ 3: 75‘Masterpiece Green Longpod’ 3: 75

‘Monica’ 3: 75‘Optica’ 3: 74‘Perla’ 3: 74, 75‘Red Epicure’ 3: 75‘Robin Hood’ 3: 75, 75‘Scabiola Verde’ 3: 75, 75

‘Statissa’ 3: 75‘Suprifin’ 3: 75, 75‘¬e Sutton’ 3: 75, 75; 10: 46

‘Turbo’ 3: 75, 75‘Witkiem Manita’ 3: 74, 75

‘Witkiem Vroma’ 3: 75, 75

climbing French:by Daniela Jankowska 10: 58–60

cultivation 10: 58–59preserving and drying 10: 60

‘Bird’s Egg’ 10: 58, 59‘Black Croatian’ 10: 59

‘Celina’s Flat Wide’ 10: 59

‘Cherokee Trail of Tears’ 10: 58–59

‘Coco Bicolor’ 10: 59‘Cyprus’ 10: 59‘Dinah’s Climbing Blue’ 10: 60

‘Fortex’ 10: 59‘Garden of Eden’ 10: 59

‘Goldfield’ 10: 60

AWARD OF GARDEN MERIT (AGM) PLANT PROFILESArum italicum subsp. italicum ‘Marmoratum’ 1: 98, 98

asparagus ‘Connover’s Colossal’ 5: 138, 138

Begonia masoniana 11: 114, 114

Calamagrostis brachytricha 10: 98, 98

Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’ 12: 90, 90

Catananche caerulea ‘Major’ 7: 106, 106

Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Moerloosei’ 3: 114, 114

chilli ‘Super Chili’ 8: 98, 98

Clematis rehderiana 9: 106, 106

Cornus mas ‘Golden Glory’ 2: 106, 106

Coronilla valentina subsp. glauca ‘Citrina’ 11: 114, 114

Dicentra formosa ‘Bacchanal’ 4: 122, 122

Eranthis hyemalis (Tubergenii Group) ‘Guinea Gold’ 1: 98, 98

Fuchsia ‘Thalia’ 7: 106, 106

Geranium ‘Orion’ 6: 114, 114

Helianthus annuus ‘Claret’ 8: 98, 98

Hydrangea aspera Villosa Group 9: 106, 106

Ilex crenata ‘Golden Gem’ 12: 90, 90

Liquidambar styraciflua

‘Worplesdon’ 11: 114, 114Lonicera x purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’ 2: 106, 106

Magnolia grandiflora ‘Exmouth’ 7: 106, 106

Mahonia x media ‘Underway’ 1: 98, 98

Narcissus ‘Jack Snipe’ 3: 114, 114

Nerine bowdenii 10: 98, 98

Nymphaea ‘Pygmaea Helvola’ 8: 98, 98

Papaver orientale ‘Black and White’ 5: 138, 138

pear ‘Beurré Hardy’ 9: 106, 106

Philadelphus ‘Sybille’ 6: 114, 114

Pyracantha ‘Teton’ 10: 98, 98

rhubarb ‘Timperley Early’ 3: 114, 114

Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’ 5: 138, 138

Rosmarinus o�icinalis ‘Sissinghurst Blue’ 6: 114, 114

Saxifraga ‘Tumbling Waters’ (accompanying picture shows Saxifraga callosa in error) 4: 122

Scilla mischtschenkoana 2: 106, 106

Tulipa ‘Queen of Sheba’ 4: 122, 122

Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Deben’ 12: 90, 90

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PESTS UNDER GLASS How to identify and combat the top fi ve

glasshouse pestsRELIABLE HOSTAS: CHOOSING THE BEST SELECTIONS

PRIVATE TOUR: GARDEN OF THE

SISSINGHURST GARDENERS

Winning Winning Winning ways at Chelsea

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TheGardenTheGardenHot heleniums

� e best selections to ignite your summer borders

DELICIOUS DAMSONS FOR SUMMER FLAVOUR

WHY YOUR GARDEN POND IS VITAL TO WILDLIFE

TENDER CUTS How to take cuttings of your favourite tender perennials

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GUNNERAS:Monsters and

miniatures in a Norfolk garden

Garden

Growing the tastes of home

buddleias

HIGHLIGHTS FROM RHS FLOWER SHOW TATTON PARK

Lantanas for exotic summer colour

The

RHS TRIAL: PICK OF CELERIAC

Brilliant

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Finding berried treasure

Autumn: the best time for planting

NIGEL SLATER: TASTES THROUGH

THE SEASON

FRENCH BEANS:Perfect for drying or eating fresh

Choosing cotoneasters for your garden

Planting ideas with grasses

The

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Choosing shrubs and

small trees for a dazzling

autumn display

SELECTING BAMBOOS FOR SMALLER PLOTS

Inspiration from a range of compact gardens

Ideas for small spaces

GARDEN PRACTICE: TAKING ROOT CUTTINGS

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Grow your own Venus’ fl y trap

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� e moment for mahonias

HOW TO PREDICT A FROSTY NIGHT

Mystical mistletoe explained

A garden made for butterfl ies

HOW TO PREDICT A FROSTY NIGHTHOW TO PREDICT A FROSTY NIGHT



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beans, climbing French (continued) – birds

beans, climbing French (continued):

‘Italian Snap’ 10: 59, 60

‘Jumbo’ 10: 59‘Madeira Maroon’ 10: 59

‘Major Cook’s Bean’ 10: 60

‘Mr Tung’s’ 10: 59‘Northeaster’ 10: 60‘Oro’ 10: 59‘Purple Prize’ 10: 59, 59, 60

‘Rattlesnake’ 10: 59, 60

‘Ryder’s Top of the Pole’ 10: 59

‘Schöne von Richigen’ 10: 60

‘Tresnjevac’ 10: 59runner:

‘Red Rum’ 10: 47‘Scarlet Emperor’ 10: 47

Beck, Caroline, on: the Sowing New Seeds project: an exotic seeds initiative 9: 50–53

bedding:alternatives to busy lizzies 5: 35

autumn planting 10: 41beds, raised: digging versus topdressing 1: 26

bee(s):bumblebees:

advice for gardeners 10: 31

bumblebee, short-haired (Bombus subterraneus) 1: 29, 29

flower-gripping mechanisms 8: 11

honeybee (Apis mellifera) 7: 18–19

decline in numbers 8: 23

overpopulation in London 11: 11

hotels 12: 24, 24leafcutter (Megachile species) 12: 24, 24

on buddleias 9: 60plants for 7: 66–69; 9: 22wild: their role in fruit pollination 1: 9

bee-fly, dark-edged (Bombylius major), by Andrew Halstead 4: 33, 33

Beesia calthifolia 4: 66–67, 68

beetle:Asian longhorn (Anoplophora glabripennis) 6: 9, 9

update 8: 10flea 5: 31green tiger (Cicindela campestris), by Andrew Halstead 6: 29, 29

lily 5: 28, 28beetroot:

as a ‘catch crop’ 5: 30effect of salt on

sweetness, by Matthew Biggs 2: 17

reader response 4: 16wine 11: 87

Begonia:planting 2: 26masoniana 11: 114, 114Devotion (‘Yadev’) (Million Kisses Series) 5: 35

‘Glowing Embers’ 5: 45Semperflorens Cultorum Group 5: 35

Belder, Robert and Jelena de 1: 50

bell cloches 5: 63Bellamy, David 6: 8

Bennett, Penelope 5: 27; 11: 46her rooftop garden in South Kensington, by Phil Clayton 11: 46–47

on: snails 5: 27reader response 7: 18

Berberis:culinary use of fruits 4: 17

gagnepainii var. lanceifolia (letter on) 1: 16, 16

insignis 10: 64jamesiana 10: 64temolaica 10: 64vulgaris ‘Asperma’ as a

crop 4: 17Bere Court Farm, near Reading, Berks 3: 43–46

Bergenia:‘Apple Blossom’ 1: 10, 10‘Sunningdale’ leaves 1: 67

‘Wintermärchen’ 7: 53, 53

Berridge, Vanessa, on: tulip displays in Judith and Michael Strong’s south London garden 5: 75–77

berries:hybrid: training 6: 22–23definition 9: 24

Berryman, Alex (RHS Young Photographer of the Year 2012) 12: 68

Betula:birch wine 11: 87cleaning bark 10: 25pruning 10: 25albosinensis var. septentrionalis 11: 36

pendula 11: 87utilis var. jacquemontii bark 1: 67

Bevan, Rebecca (4: 76), on:growing grapes for wine at Wisley 11: 88

strawberries at Wisley 4: 76

Bevan, Rebecca, and Mario De Pace, on: summer radishes 5: 84–86

Big Butterfly Count 12: 44

Big Wildlife Garden com-petition winners 8: 81

Biggs, Jeremy, on: water for wildlife 8: 72–76

Biggs, Matthew, on: hardening off 5: 61–63 (see also Believe It Or Not panel)

Biggs, Sue (1: 74), on:autumn planting 10: 72Lawrence Hall 4: 80RHS Campaign for School Gardening 4: 80; 9: 74

RHS courses and qualifications 12: 68

RHS Grow Your Own campaign 3: 84

RHS Key Investment Projects 7: 78

RHS Life Membership 5: 98

RHS National Gardening Week 9: 74

RHS plans for 2012 1: 74RHS Shows in 2012 2: 50¬e Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 6: 76

volunteers’ contribution to the RHS 11: 92

wildlife, RHS work to encourage 8: 80

binomial system 5: 21bioswales 8: 14birch (see Betula)birds:

as mistletoe distributors 12: 63

berry-eating habits

BELIEVE IT OR NOT monthly column by Matthew Biggs

ash as a source of potassium 10: 17

beetroot: e�ect of salt on sweetness 2: 17reader response 4: 16

co�ee grounds as a slug repellent 7: 19reader response 9: 17

companion planting: its e�ectiveness 11: 19

crocks at the bottom of pots: the benefits 9: 17

Euphorbia: its supposed deterrent e�ect on moles 5: 23reader response 7: 19

figs: planting in pits 4: 17lawn cutting height and drought tolerance 6: 15

parsley: e�ect of pouring boiling water into drills 3: 17

reader responses for Oct and Nov 2011 2: 16

rhubarb leaves as a preventive of brassica clubroot 12: 15

scorch: watering in direct sun as a cause 8: 19

snowdrops: planting in the green 1: 17

BOOK REVIEWS by book author

Beaton, Caroline, et al: Fruit and Vegetables for Scotland 12: 89

Bowe, Alice: High-Impact Low-Carbon Gardening 4: 119

Cassidy, Patty: Gardening for Seniors 6: 113

Chamovitz, Daniel: What a Plant Knows 6: 113

Christopher, Thomas: The New American Landscape 5: 137

Cox, Kenneth, et al: Fruit and Vegetables for Scotland 12: 89

Debreczy, Zsolt, et al: Conifers Around the World 12: 87

Dirr, Michael A: Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs 10: 97

Dortort, Fred: The Timber Press Guide to Succulent Plants of the World 3: 113

Frazer, Mike and Liz: The Smallest Kingdom 11: 111

Fry, Carolyn, et al: The Last Great Plant Hunt 1: 96

Gardiner, Jim: Encyclopedia of Flowering Shrubs 11: 111

Harland, Gail: Designing and Creating a Cottage Garden 6: 113

Hight, Julian: Britain’s Tree Story 12: 89

Hobson, Jake: The Art of Creative Pruning 10: 97

Jencks, Charles: The Universe in the Landscape 1: 97

Jones, Andrea: The Garden Source 9: 105

Jones, Louisa: Mediterranean Landscape Designs 11: 113

Lavelle, Michael: Sustainable Gardening 4: 119

Lespinasse, Jean-Marie, and Évelyne Leterme: Growing Fruit Trees 8: 97

Leterme, Évelyne, and Jean-Marie Lespinasse: Growing Fruit Trees 8: 97

Maklouf, Laetitia: Sweet Peas for Summer 10: 97

McKay, George: Radical Gardening 4: 121

Mitchell, Alex: The Edible Balcony 4: 121

Nicholass, John: The Gardener’s Guide to Growing Fuchsias 9: 105

Norris, Kelly D: A Guide to Bearded Irises 12: 87

O’Brien, Seamus: In the Footsteps of Augustine Henry 4: 119

Pilkington, Margaret: Wildflower Meadows 12: 89

Rácz, Istuán, et al: Conifers Around the World 12: 87

Raven, Sarah: Wild Flowers 8: 97

Richardson, Tim: Futurescapes 8: 97

Rosenfeld, Richard: The Gardener’s Guide to Propagation 9: 105

Seddon, Sue, et al: The Last Great Plant Hunt 1: 96

Starr, Greg: Agaves 11: 111Vines, Gail, et al: The Last Great Plant Hunt 1: 96

Walker, John: How to Create an Eco Garden 5: 137

Wareham, Anne: The Bad Tempered Gardener 3: 113

West, Cleve: Our Plot 4: 119

Whittingham, Jo: Grow Something to Eat Every Day 1: 96

Whittingham, Sarah: Fern Fever 11: 113

Wilford, Richard: Alpines from Mountain to Garden 1: 96

Wilson, Andrew: Contemporary Colour in the Garden 1: 97

Wulf, Andrea: The Founding Gardeners 3: 113

BOOK REVIEWS by title

Agaves, by Greg Starr 11: 111

Alpines from Mountain to Garden, by Richard Wilford 1: 96

Art of Creative Pruning, The, by Jake Hobson 10: 97

Bad Tempered Gardener, The, by Anne Wareham 3: 113

Britain’s Tree Story, by Julian Hight 12: 89

Conifers Around the World, by Zsolt Debreczy and Istuán Rácz 12: 87

Contemporary Colour in the Garden, by Andrew Wilson 1: 97

Designing and Creating a Cottage Garden, by Gail Harland 6: 113

Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs, by Michael A Dirr 10: 97

Edible Balcony, The, by Alex Mitchell 4: 121

Encyclopedia of Flowering Shrubs, by Jim Gardiner 11: 111

Fern Fever, by Sarah Whittingham 11: 113

Founding Gardeners, The, by Andrea Wulf 3: 113

Fruit and Vegetables for Scotland, by Kenneth Cox and Caroline

Beaton 12: 89Futurescapes, by Tim Richardson 8: 97

Garden Source, The, by Andrea Jones 9: 105

Gardener’s Guide to Growing Fuchsias, The, by John Nicholass 9: 105

Gardener’s Guide to Propagation, The, by Richard Rosenfeld 9: 105

Gardening for Seniors, by Patty Cassidy 6: 113

Grow Something to Eat Every Day, by Jo Whittingham 1: 96

Growing Fruit Trees, by Jean-Marie Lespinasse and Évelyne Leterme 8: 97

Guide to Bearded Irises, A, by Kelly D Norris 12: 87

High-Impact Low-Carbon Gardening, by Alice Bowe 4: 119

How to Create an Eco Garden, by John Walker 5: 137

In the Footsteps of Augustine Henry, by Seamus O’Brien 4: 119

Last Great Plant Hunt, The, by Carolyn Fry, Sue Seddon and Gail Vines 1: 96

Mediterranean Landscape Designs, by Louisa Jones 11: 113

New American Landscape, The, by Thomas Christopher 5: 137

Our Plot, by Cleve West 4: 119

Radical Gardening, by George McKay 4: 121

Smallest Kingdom, The, by Mike and Liz Frazer 11: 111

Sustainable Gardening, by Michael Lavelle 4: 119

Sweet Peas for Summer, by Laetitia Maklouf 10: 97

Timber Press Guide to Succulent Plants of the World, The, by Fred Dortort 3: 113

Universe in the Landscape, The, by Charles Jencks 1: 97

What a Plant Knows, by Daniel Chamovitz 6: 113

Wild Flowers, by Sarah Raven 8: 97

Wildflower Meadows, by Margaret Pilkington 12: 89


birds – clay pots

survey 11: 33farmland: decline in numbers 9: 31

feeding in winter 1: 27their liking for Cotoneaster 10: 69

top 10 recorded 2011 6: 29

Birmingham Botanical Gardens 1: 60, 61

bitter pit 10: 25, 25blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla) and mistletoe 12: 63

blackcurrant ‘Ben Connan’: powdery mildew resistance 12: 24

Blackmore, Stephen: award of Victoria Medal of Honour 7: 12, 12

Blanco White, Anne, on: bearded irises 5: 54–59

Blanusa, Tijana 6: 59her research into green-roof plants 12: 8

on: reduced watering 6: 59

blight, late (Phytophthora infestans) 7: 31, 31

Bloom, Alan (9: 55; 11: 45) and Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, by Roy Lancaster 9: 54–55

Blooms Nurseries, Bressingham, Norfolk: its introductions 9: 55

blossom end rot 7: 24, 24blossom wilt 4: 27, 27blue bean shrub (see Decaisnea fargesii)

bluebell(s):common (see Hyacinthoides non-scripta)

distinguishing native 4: 31

Spanish (see Hyacinthoides hispanica)

blueberry ‘Pink Lemonade’ 12: 10, 10

Blythe, Jim: award of Associate of Honour 7: 12

bog garden 8: 48, 48–49Bond, Emma (8: 20), on:

the cost-effectiveness of allotments 8: 20


Bopp, Wolfgang 2: 106Borde Hill, W Sussex: its collection of plant-hunters’ letters 11: 12

borders:management through the year 1: 24–25

naturalistic, at Cambo Estate walled gardens, Fife 8: 58–63

summer 8: 49, 49Borinda papyrifera 11: 67, 69

Bostock, Helen (9: 59), on:butterflies at Stratford Butterfly Farm, Warwickshire 12: 42–46

gardeners and wildlife gardening 9: 71

RHS Plants for Bugs project 3: 70–72

self-sown buddleias 9: 59

botanic gardens in the 19th century, by Ann Brooks 1: 58–61

botanical art, recent, by Ian Hodgson 3: 77–80

botany degrees:disappearance of, by Sally Nex 1: 13

reader response 3: 17; 6: 15

Botany Department, RHS: its work and purpose 2: 84

botany of garden fruit 9: 24–25

Bourne, Val, on:Bob and Shirley Stoneley’s colour-themed garden at Woodbury Cottage, Reigate, Surrey 9: 32–37

Pat Edwards’ National Plant Collection of Hamamelis at Swallow Hayes, W Midlands 1: 50–53

Bowles, EA 1: 33; 2: 55; 2: 76

Bowyer, Michael: award of MBE 10: 9

box blight 3: 19box tree caterpillar 3: 19Boyd, Viscountess: award of Victoria Medal of Honour 7: 12, 12

boysenberry, training 6: 22bracken, composted 1: 49Brassica 11: 63

colourful new selections, by Sue Stickland 11: 62–63

clubroot: use of rhubarb leaves as a preventive, by Matthew Biggs 12: 15

breeding of new crop cultivars 2: 73

Breezy Knees Nursery and Gardens, York, by Roy Lancaster 6: 45–48

Briggs, Jonathan, on: mistletoe 12: 61–64

Britain in Bloom, RHS (see RHS panel)

Broadleigh Gardens: its four decades of shows at Chelsea, by Nigel Colborn 4: 52–54

broccoli:‘Purple Cape’ 11: 62‘Summer Purple’ 11: 63‘Tenderstem’ 11: 62

Brogdale Farm, Kent: apple replanting 3: 12

brokali:cultivation 11: 62‘Apollo’ 11: 62‘Atlantis’ 11: 62

Brooks, Ann, on: subscription botanic

gardens 1: 58–61brownfield sites 4: 71

as priorities for development 5: 12

Buckland, Jim: award of Associate of Honour 7: 12

Buckland, Toby, on: autumn planting 10: 36–41

Buddleja:as insect attractors 9: 60cultivation 9: 59–60National Plant Collection, ¬e Lavender Garden, Gloucs, by Chris Sanders 9: 56–60

pruning 9: 59–60RHS trial 9: 58–59self-sown 9: 59davidii 9: 58

pruning 3: 53‘Autumn Beauty’ 9: 60

‘Black Knight’ 9: 60‘Cotswold Blue’ 9: 56, 59

‘Dartmoor’ 9: 56‘Grey Dawn’ 9: 58Nanho White (‘Monite’) 9: 57

‘Orpheus’ 9: 57, 59‘Shire Blue’ 9: 59‘Summer Beauty’ 9: 57

fallowiana var. alba 9: 59

forrestii 8: 65globosa 9: 58‘Pink Delight’ 9: 57x weyeriana 9: 58

‘Bicolor’ 9: 1, 58‘Golden Glow’ 9: 56‘Moonlight’ 9: 56‘Pink Pagoda’ 9: 60‘Sungold’ 9: 59

Bulbophyllum nocturnum 2: 12, 12

bulbs:autumn 7: 31; 10: 41defined, by Mike Grant 11: 17

summer-flowering 2: 26; 3: 24–25

Bull, Ian (1: 48), on: use of sandy grit at RHS Garden Hyde Hall 1: 48–49

bullace(s):and damsons, by Gerry Edwards 8: 69–71

‘Golden Bullace’ 8: 71‘Langley Bullace’ 8: 71, 71‘Veitch’s Black Bullace’ 8: 71

‘White Bullace’ 8: 71, 71Bullock, Andrew (9: 58): his National Collection of Buddleja at ¬e Lavender Garden, Gloucs 9: 56–60

Burrough, Philippa (4: 47) and Bryan: their garden at Ulting Wick, Maldon, Essex 4: 44–49

bursaries:National Gardens Scheme Elspeth ¬ompson 12: 9

RHS 9: 76busy lizzie (see Impatiens walleriana)

buttercups: their reflective properties 3: 12

Butterfield, Ian: award of

Reginald Cory Memorial Cup 7: 12

butterflies:at Stratford Butterfly Farm, Warwickshire, by Helen Bostock 12: 42–46

brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) 12: 45

brown argus (Aricia agestis) 9: 31, 31

comma (Polygonia c-album) 4: 70; 12: 42

common blue (Polyommatus icarus) 12: 45

decline in numbers 12: 44

gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus) 12: 42

meadow brown (Maniola jurtina) 12: 45

on buddleias 9: 60painted lady (Vanessa cardui) 12: 45

peacock (Inachis io) 12: 45

plants for 7: 66–69; 9: 22; 12: 43, 44, 46

red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) 12: 45

small copper (Lycaena phlaeas) 12: 43

small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) 12: 45

small white (Pieris rapae) 12: 42

speckled wood (Pararge aegeria) 12: 45

wall brown (Lasiommata megera) 12: 43

wood white (Leptidea sinapsis) 12: 42

Ccabbage:

root fly 5: 31‘Christmas Drumhead’ 10: 45

‘Duncan’ 11: 63‘January King’ 10: 45‘Kalibos’ 11: 62‘Langedijker Bewaar’ 2: 72

‘Marner Early Red’ painted by Clare McGhee 3: 79

Cabot, Frank (obituary) 2: 12, 12

Calamagrostis brachytricha 10: 50, 52; 98, 98

Calceolaria ‘Walter Shrimpton’ 2: 71, 71

Calibrachoa Minifamous Apricot Red Eye (‘Kleca06124’) 4: 59

callaloo 9: 52, 53; 11: 14Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii ‘Profusion’ 11: 40

Callirhoe bushii 8: 14Caltha palustris 11: 78, 78Calvert, John, of Stratford Butterfly Farm 12: 43

Camassia:at Hyde Hall and Wisley 2: 24

naturalising 2: 24planting 2: 26leichtlinii subsp. suksdorfii Caerulea Group 2: 24

Cambo Estate walled gardens, Fife, by Jo Whittingham 8: 58–63

Camellia:at London shows, by Nigel Colborn 2: 64–66

cultivation 2: 22judging show blooms 2: 65

problems 2: 22pruning 2: 22survey of old specimens 8: 11

‘Harold L. Paige’ 2: 65japonica:

‘Hakurakuten’ 2: 64‘Jean Clere’ 2: 64

x williamsii:‘Ballet Queen’ 2: 65‘Jury’s Yellow’ 2: 65‘Les Jury’ 2: 64

Cameron, David: his comments about gardeners 4: 21

Canna:overwintered 2: 26planting 2: 26

canopy, raising 3: 54Cardamine quinquefolia 2: 34

careers in horticulture 4: 21promoting 4: 22–23school leavers: attracting to horticulture 4: 23

Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’ 12: 90, 90

Carpobrotus edulis 1: 42carrot(s):

for smaller outdoor spaces 3: 64

‘Chantenay’ 10: 45‘Early Nantes’ 10: 46

Caryopteris x clandonensis 9: 22

Castlewellan Arboretum, Co. Down 9: 8

Catananche caerulea ‘Major’ 7: 106, 106

‘catch crops’ 5: 30–31catfacing 7: 24, 24cauliflower:

‘Graffiti’ 11: 62–63, 63‘Sunset’ 11: 63

Cautleya spicata 3: 46celeriac:

AGM awards 9: 39cultivation 9: 38RHS trial at West Dean Gardens, W Sussex, by Sarah Wain 9: 38–39

‘Cisko’ 9: 39‘Monarch’ 9: 39, 39‘Neon’ 9: 39‘Prinz’ 9: 39‘Rowena’ 9: 39

Centaurea achtarovii 2: 71, 71

Cercidiphyllum:japonicum 11: 38–39

‘Boyd’s Dwarf’ 11: 35–36

f. pendulum 11: 35–36

Cercis:

canadensis:‘Forest Pansy’ 11: 40‘Ruby Falls’ 1: 10, 10

Chaenomeles:speciosa ‘Moerloosei’ 3: 114, 114

x superba 3: 72, 72chafer grubs 8: 24, 24chaffinches 1: 27, 27

recent decline 12: 29Chamaecyparis:

lawsoniana:hedge dieback 9: 25infected with Phytophthora 1: 8

‘Pearly Swirls’ 12: 10, 10

chard:and leaf beet, by Liz Dobbs 6: 54–55

as a ‘catch crop’ 5: 30cultivation 6: 54harvesting 6: 54RHS trial 6: 55‘Bali’ 6: 55, 55‘Bright Yellow’ 6: 55‘Canary Yellow’ 6: 55, 55‘Charlotte’ 6: 55‘Destiny’ 6: 55, 55‘Fantasy’ 6: 55, 55‘Joseph’s Coat’ 10: 45‘Lucullus’ 6: 55‘Rhubarb Chard’ 6: 55‘White Silver’ 6: 55, 55

Cheek, Roy, on: RHS Argyranthemum trial 7: 42–45

‘Chelsea chop’ 5: 25Chelsea Flower Show (see RHS Shows panel)

Chelsea Physic Garden 1: 58new Garden of Edible and Useful Plants 5: 19

chemical use and wildlife 9: 70

Chenopodium quinoa 11: 14, 14

chicken of the woods fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) 2: 29, 29

chicory 10: 45chilli ‘Super Chili’ 8: 98, 98

chilling requirements in plants, by Mike Grant 2: 15reader response 4: 16

Choisya:x dewitteana:

‘Aztec Gold’ 5: 16, 16‘Aztec Pearl’ 5: 42

Cholmeley, Ursula (7: 57), gardens near Grantham, Lincs, by Bunny Guinness 7: 54–59

Christmas rose (see Helleborus niger)

Chrysanthemum ‘Star Mist’ 8: 12, 12

city gardens: RHS research into their benefits 3: 19

Clark, David 7: 12; 9: 79; 12: 90award of Victoria Medal of Honour 7: 12

Clarke, Graham, on: hardy gerberas 3: 68–69

Clarkia unguiculata 12: 44, 46

clay breaker 1: 49clay pots: winter care 12: 22

BIODIVERSITYcreating 7: 67–68Hyacinthoides bluebell identification 4: 31

in crop cultivars 2: 73suburban gardens, by Leigh Hunt 11: 45

the role of gardens, by Steve Head 4: 70–73reader response 6: 14


Clayton – cottage

Clayton, Phil (3: 60; see also Succeed With... panel), on:Cordyline indivisa: (e Garden, Nov 2011, pp36–37): reader response 2: 16

Penelope Bennett’s rooftop garden in South Kensington 11: 46–47

Clematis:propagation, unusual method of (letter on) 11: 18

Alaina (‘Evipo 056’) 8: 12, 12

Princess Kate (‘Zoprika’) 12: 10, 10

rehderiana 9: 106, 106tangutica 9: 22The Countess of Wessex (‘Evipo 073’) 7: 14, 14

Clethra National Plant Collection 12: 9

climate change, RHS research into coping with 3: 19

climbing methods in plants, by Mike Grant 4: 15

Clocaenog apple 3: 10coffee grounds as a slug repellent, by Matthew Biggs 7: 19reader response 9: 17

coir as a sowing/rooting medium:with grit 2: 46with perlite 2: 46with vermiculite 2: 45

cold frames 5: 62Colesbourne Park, Gloucs: its Galanthus collection 2: 52–56

Common Catalogue of Varieties of Vegetable Species, EU 2: 73

companion planting: its effectiveness, by Matthew Biggs 11: 19

compost:bark 1: 48bins, wildlife in 9: 26bracken 1: 49heaps: attracting and keeping worms 3: 25

Conifers, RHS Encyclopedia of: a Comprehensive Guide to Cultivars and Species, by Aris Auders and Derek Spicer 10: 77

Cook, Sam (botanical artist) 3: 79

cordons, establishing 1: 25Cordyline indivisa, by Phil Clayton (e Garden, Nov 2011, pp36–37): reader response 2: 16

corm: definition 11: 17cornfield annuals 9: 71, 71Cornus:

positioning 4: 57alba ‘Sibirica’ 11: 40alternifolia 4: 56

‘Argentea’ 4: 56, 57‘Silver Giant’ 4: 57

capitata 2: 33controversa:

by Phil Clayton 4: 56–57, 57

cultivation 4: 56

planting partners 4: 57

training 4: 57‘Candlelight’ 4: 57, 57‘Pagoda’ 4: 57‘Troya Dwarf’ 4: 57‘Variegata’ 4: 56, 56–57

‘Winter Orange’ 4: 57‘Eddie’s White Wonder’ 11: 37, 40

mas 2: 34‘Golden Glory’ 2: 106, 106

‘Shumen’ 3: 44sanguinea ‘Winter Beauty’ 1: 67

sericea:‘Hedgerows Gold’ 10: 64, 65

Kelsey’s Gold (‘Rosco’) 10: 64

Coronilla valentina subsp. glauca ‘Citrina’ 11: 114, 114

Correa:‘Canberra Bells’ 10: 10, 10

reflexa var. angustifolia 8: 67, 67

Cortaderia richardii 8: 67Corydalis malkensis 2: 34, 34

Cotinus:leaves in winter 12: 33‘Flame’ 11: 34–35‘Grace’ 11: 37, 40

Cotoneaster:apomictic 10: 26

by David Jewell 10: 66–69

cultivation 10: 67larger selections 10: 68–69

pests and diseases 10: 68

value to wildlife 10: 69amoenus 10: 66, 68bullatus berries 10: 1conspicuus ‘Decorus’ 10: 68

floccosus 10: 69glabratus 10: 66, 69glaucophyllus 10: 66, 68

horizontalis 10: 66, 69, 69; 11: 40

lacteus 10: 66, 68, 69, 69

lidjiangensis 10: 66, 68radicans 10: 68‘Rothschildianus’ 10: 68–69

salicifolius 10: 66, 67, 68

‘Avonbank’ 10: 66, 69‘Gnom’ 10: 68‘Pink Champagne’ 10: 66, 67

‘Repens’ 10: 66, 68, 69

transens 10: 66, 68turbinatus 10: 66, 69vandelaarii 10: 66, 68x watereri 10: 68

‘John Waterer’ 10: 66, 69

‘cottage garden’ style,

CULTIVATIONsee also Fruit and Vegetables panels

alpines outdoors 2: 71Argyranthemum 7: 45Arisaema 7: 70–71auriculas 3: 48–49bamboos 5: 32broad beans 3: 74Buddleja 9: 59–60Camellia 2: 22celeriac 9: 38chard 6: 54climbing French beans 10: 58–59

Cornus controversa 4: 56

Cotoneaster 10: 67Daphne 12: 22–23Dionaea 11: 60

Geranium phaeum 3: 72Gerbera 3: 69gooseberries 10: 24Hamamelis 1: 52Hepatica 2: 37–38Humulus 11: 28Iris 5: 57–58Lantana 9: 43Lewisia 6: 36–37Magnolia 4: 39Mahonia 12: 36Polygonatum 6: 64Restionaceae 9: 67Sedum 10: 33strawberries 4: 74–76Viscum 12: 63–64

COMMUNITY GARDENINGsee also RHS Britain in Bloom in RHS panel

benefits of community gardening, by Tim Richardson 7: 47–50

Britain in Bloom: Transforming Local Communities: RHS

report 7: 49, 50crime reduction: contribution of gardening 2: 10

front gardens initiative in Rochester, Kent, by

Daniela Jankowska 11: 52–53

Sowing New Seeds: an exotic seeds initiative, by Caroline Beck 9: 50–53

CONTAINER GARDENINGalternatives to busy lizzies 5: 35

auriculas 3: 48–49bamboos 11: 28, 67clay pots: winter care 12: 22

crocks at the bottom of pots: the benefits, by Matthew Biggs 9: 17

Dahlia in containers, by Ian Hodgson 4: 58–62

Gardenia 12: 40–41Helleborus niger 1: 63Hippeastrum 2: 58–59Hosta 7: 75houseplant care in winter 12: 27

in periods of drought 6:

59Lewisia 6: 37Muscari 3: 60pelargoniums, scented-leaved 12: 53, 53

pot-bound plants 12: 20restios 9: 67simple combinations 9: 37

strawberries in pots 4: 76

summer bulbs and tubers 3: 25

use of containers on decking 11: 48–51

vegetables 3: 62–67winter container displays 12: 22–23

COMMENT AND OPINIONsee also Nigel Colborn, Lia Leendertz, Mary Keen and Chris Young panels

alien plants: the contribution of gardens, by David Pearman (The Garden, Dec 2011, p19): reader response 2: 17response from Niall Moore, Fera 3: 16

allotments: making the most of, by Lia Leendertz 6: 19

their cost-e�ectiveness, by Emma Bond 8: 20


autumn planting:by Chris Young 10: 15by Nigel Colborn 10: 21

‘Desert Island Flowers’, by Mary Keen 11: 23

designer gardens at Les Jardins de Métis, Quebec, by Rory Stuart 12: 19

developments in growing media, by Chris Young 2: 15

edible flowers, by Nigel Slater 6: 19

Erigeron annuus and newly fashionable plants, by Mary Keen 12: 17

focal points in design, by Mary Keen 9: 19

front gardens: their beneficial influence, by Nick Turrell 11: 23

garden visitors: attracting in a smaller world, by Chris Young 12: 13

gardeners past: their presence in historic gardens, by Lia Leendertz 1: 19

gardening and well being, by Chris Young 6: 13

gardening in schools, by Lia Leendertz 9: 21

gardens: their benefits to wildlife, by Chris Young 4: 15

heritage fruit and

vegetables: their importance, by Toby Musgrave 2: 72–73

horticulture:and ecology, reconciling, by Nigel Colborn 7: 23


as a career, by Alan Titchmarsh 4: 21


its future, by Mary Keen 8: 20

improvements in gardening, by Chris Young 5: 21

January as a gardening breathing space, by Chris Young 1: 15

Kreutzberger, Sibylle, and Pamela Schwerdt: their gardening partnership, by John Sales 7: 23, 23

landscape, its importance, by Mary Keen 6: 17

lawns, low-maintenance, by Nigel Colborn 2: 19reader response 4: 16

names of plants, changes in, by James Armitage 9: 21

new introductions: keeping up, by Nigel Colborn 8: 21

response from David Austin 10: 16

parks, preserving, by Lia Leendertz 7: 21

people: their importance in the gardening world, by Chris Young 7: 17

pruning, excessive, by Nigel Colborn 5: 25

reassessing a garden in later life, by Sir Roy Strong 10: 21reader response 12: 15

rules, horticultural:

breaking, by Mary Keen 2: 21

science: its importance for gardeners, by Mary Keen 3: 19

self-seeding plants, by Dawn Isaac 3: 21reader response 5: 23

smaller spaces, gardening in, by Chris Young 11: 17

snails, by Penelope Bennett 5: 27reader response 7: 18

snowdrops, aberrant, by Nigel Colborn 1: 21

St Valentine’s Day: alternatives to roses, by Lynda Synge 2: 21

Stuart-Smith, Tom: his experimental private garden, by Chris Young 3: 15

temporary gardens: their drawbacks, by Lia Leendertz 10: 19

untidy gardens, by Nigel Colborn 11: 21

vegetable growing: its degree of easiness, by Lia Leendertz 3: 21reader response 5: 22

vegetables as perennials, by Lia Leendertz 4: 19

vermin and wildlife, by Paola Wright 1: 21

water in garden features, by Chris Young 8: 17

wet summer of 2012: its consequences, by Chris Young 9: 15

why we plant, by Mary Keen 5: 27reader response 7: 18

winter gardening pleasures, by Lia Leendertz 12: 19

NIGEL COLBORN columnist

(1: 21; 2: 19; 5: 25, 25; 7: 23; 8: 21; 11: 21)aberrant snowdrops 1: 21autumn planting 10: 21Broadleigh Gardens: its four decades of shows at Chelsea 4: 52–54

Camellia at London shows 2: 64–66

excessive pruning 5: 25Jenny and Richard Raworth’s garden in Twickenham 6: 30–34

keeping up with new introductions 8: 21response from David Austin 10: 16

low-maintenance lawns 2: 19reader response 4: 16

reconciling horticulture and ecology 7: 23

untidy gardens 11: 21


courgettes – evergreens

Margery Fish’s 11: 45courgettes for smaller outdoor spaces 3: 65

courses and workshops 2013, RHS 12: 69

courtyard garden in Brighton, Sussex 11: 54–55

Coutts Skyline Garden, London WC2 11: 14, 14

Cox, Martyn, on: Aileen Scoular’s town garden in London E4 11: 48–51

Crambe maritima (see sea kale)

Crassula:new National Plant Collection 7: 11

‘Buddha’s Temple’ 9: 12, 12

helmsii 8: 76Crataegus:

laevigata ‘Gireoudii’ 10: 62–63

persimilis ‘Prunifolia’ 11: 39

Crawford, Simon 8: 98cricket, bush speckled (Leptophyes punctatissima), by Andrew Halstead 11: 33, 33

crime reduction: contribution of gardening 2: 10

Crinum planting 2: 26crocks at the bottom of pots: the benefits, by Matthew Biggs 9: 17

Crocosmia:planting 2: 26‘Bressingham Blaze’ 9: 55

‘Emberglow’ 9: 55‘Lucifer’ 9: 54, 55‘Spitfire’ 9: 55

Crosbie, Colin (1: 81; 4: 57), on:positioning Cornus 4: 57plans for 2012 at RHS Garden Wisley 1: 81

cucumbers:for smaller spaces under glass 3: 65

wine 11: 88‘Burpless Tasty Green’ 10: 47, 47

‘La Diva’ 10: 47‘Venlo Pickling’ 5: 31

Cucurbita ficifolia (see shark fin melon)

cumelon 11: 14Cuphea ‘Regal Purple’ 4: 12, 12

Cupressus macrocarpa hedge dieback 9: 25

x Cuprocyparis leylandii hedge dieback 9: 25

currant, buffalo (see Ribes odoratum)

Currie, Ian (12: 48), on: predicting frost 12: 48

cushion scale 3: 28, 28on evergreens 12: 27, 27

cuttings:root, by Guy Barter 11: 81–83

tender perennial, by Nick Morgan 8: 55–57

cycad evolution 1: 10Cyclamen hederifolium 7: 31, 31

cyclatubers 11: 17Cymbalaria muralis 9: 16

Cymbidium Mavourneen grex ‘Jester’ 5: 99

Cymbopogon citratus (see lemon grass)

Cynara cardunculus ‘Bere’ 3: 46

cypress aphid (Cinara cupressivora) 9: 25, 25

DDactylorhiza:

by Phil Clayton 5: 82–83for garden use 5: 83in containers 5: 83planting times 5: 83special requirements 5: 83

foliosa 5: 82, 83fuchsii 5: 82, 83; 9: 68maculata 5: 83, 83majalis 5: 83

Dahlia:cuttings 2: 26in containers, by Ian Hodgson 4: 58–62

overwintered 2: 26planting 2: 26propagation 4: 26‘Bishop of York’ 4: 60Candy Eyes (‘Zone Ten’) 4: 62, 62

‘Cherubino’ 4: 62, 62‘Danum Torch’ 4: 62‘Dark Desire’ 4: 62, 62‘David Howard’ 4: 62, 62‘Dream Seeker’ 4: 59‘Gallery Art Deco’ (Gallery Series) 4: 62, 62

‘Giraffe’ 10: 56Happy Single Date (‘HS Date’) 4: 61

Happy Single Wink (‘HS Wink’) 4: 58

imperialis 2: 12, 12‘Jessica’ 12: 70, 70‘Julie One’ 10: 56‘Ossie Latham’ 4: 62‘Pat Knight’ 4: 60‘Purple Cherry’ 3: 10, 10‘Roxy’ 4: 62, 62‘Tartarus’ 4: 60‘Twyning’s After Eight’ 10: 56

damselfly, southern (Coenagrion mercuriale) 7: 33, 33

damsons:and bullaces, by Gerry Edwards 8: 69–71

bacterial canker 8: 26–27

pests and diseases 8: 70pruning 8: 26–27‘Farleigh Damson’ 8: 71; 10: 16 (correction)

‘Merryweather Damson’ 8: 69, 70

‘Prune Damson’ 8: 26–27; 8: 71, 71

painted by William Hooker 8: 21

‘Shropshire Damson’ 8: 71

‘Westmorland Prune’ 8: 71

‘White Damson’ 8: 26;

8: 71, 71dandelion (see Taraxacum)

Daniel, Brigitte (botanical artist) 3: 78

Daphne:cultivation 12: 22–23bholua:

‘Jacqueline Postill’ 2: 34, 36, 37

by Roy Lancaster 1: 36–37

‘Limpsfield’ 12: 22–23

Darwin, Charles: his collection of fossil plant slides 3: 9, 9

David, Père Armand 5: 65; 9: 58

Davis, Cath 7: 71De Pace, Mario (1: 56), on: shallots at Wisley 1: 56

De Pace, Mario, and Rebecca Bevan, on: summer radishes 5: 84–86

dead leaves: winter retention, by Mike Grant 1: 15

deadheading 7: 26–27Decaisnea fargesii 3: 45decking in a small space: Aileen Scoular’s garden in London E4 11: 48–51

decomposers 5: 68Delphinium ‘Dewi Prieste’ 7: 14, 14

Dendrocalamus giganteus 11: 66

Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Goldtau’ 10: 52

‘Desert Island Flowers’, by Mary Keen 11: 23

design (see Garden Design panel)

developments in growing media, by Chris Young 2: 15

Deverell, Richard (new Director of RBG Kew) 8: 10

devil’s tongue (see Amorphophallus konjac)

Diamond Jubilee 5: 89patriotic plantings 2: 8

Dianthus:‘Floors Castle’ 9: 9Memories (‘WP11 Gwe04’) 7: 10, 10

‘Miss Farrow’ 6: 10, 10Diascia ‘Bluebelle’ 5: 16, 16

Diaspora Botanical Gardens, Redruth, Cornwall 3: 9

Dibley, Lynne 11: 114Dicentra formosa ‘Bacchanal’ 4: 122, 122

Dickerson, Tony, on: soil conditioners 1: 47–49

Dierama pendulum 1: 42Dig for Victory campaign 5: 92

Digitalis:Illumination Pink (‘Tmdgfp001’) (Illumination Series) 7: 10, 10; 11: 19

‘Serendipity’ 1: 37dimorphic leaves, by Mike Grant 12: 13

dioecious plants, by Mike Grant 7: 17

Dionaea:muscipula 6: 13, 13

by Phil Clayton 11: 60–61, 60, 61

cultivation 11: 60, 61fly-trapping mechanism 11: 61, 61

hardiness 11: 60‘Akai Ryu’ 11: 61‘Royal Red’ 11: 61, 61

Dionysia ‘Monika’ 2: 70, 70

Disanthus cercidifolius 11: 40

Disporopsis:fuscopicta 6: 64longifolia 6: 64pernyi 6: 64

Disporum:longistylum 4: 67, 67; 6: 64, 64

uniflorum 4: 67, 67diversity of crop cultivars, decreasing 2: 73

dividing plants:by David Hide 4: 41–43frequency 4: 42methods 4: 43

Dobbs, Liz, on: chard and leaf beet 6: 54–55

domestic gardens: RHS Lindley Library image database 2: 12

dormant planting 10: 36Douglas, David 9: 44Draba cusickii 2: 69Drake, John: award of MBE 8: 10

drought:improving growing conditions 6: 58–59

soil cultivation 6: 59strategies 6: 57–59

drupe: definition 9: 24Drury, Anita (6: 37), on: Lewisia wall plantings 6: 37

Dryopteris wallichiana and Nathaniel Wallich, by Roy Lancaster 11:

84–85, 84, 85duck potatoes 9: 51, 51Dunn, Nick 9: 106Dunnett, Nigel: his designs at the London Wetland Centre 11: 76–78

dwarf vegetable cultivars 3: 63

dye, use of in garden water feature 12: 56

dye plants 9: 51

Eearwigs 7: 26, 26

common (Forficula auricularia), by Andrew Halstead 3: 31, 31

world’s largest (Labidura herculeana) 3: 31

Echinops root cuttings 11: 83, 83

Echium:pininana 1: 38–39

as a bee plant 7: 68ecosystems, garden: improving 5: 72

Edern, Edith 1: 41Edible Bus Stop initiative 7: 48


edible fruits and berries 3: 43–46

Edulis nursery, Reading, Berks 3: 43–46

Edwards, Dawn 7: 45Edwards, Pat (1: 50, 52), her National Plant Collection of Hamamelis at Swallow Hayes, W Midlands 1: 50–53

Einchcomb, Martin, on: Lantana 9: 40–43

elderberry and elderflower wine 11: 87

Elegia:capensis 9: 67, 67tectorum 9: 66, 67, 67

Elias, Josie (RHS Photographer of the Year 2012) 12: 68

Elliott, John: award of Veitch Memorial Medal 7: 12

Elwes, Henry John 2: 54Elwes, Sir Henry and Lady 2: 55

Emmons, Jean (botanical artist) 3: 77

Enkianthus:campanulatus ‘Victoria’ 7: 14, 14

cernuus f. rubens 11: 37

perulatus 11: 37, 40Epimedium:

davidii dwarf 4: 67fargesii ‘Pink Constellation’ 4: 67

leptorrhizum 4: 67pinnatum subsp. colchicum 4: 67

stellulatum ‘Wudang Star’ 4: 67

Equisetum arvense 11: 31, 31

Eranthis hyemalis (Tubergenii Group) ‘Guinea Gold’ 1: 98, 98

Eremurus:planting 2: 26‘Joanna’ 3: 34–35

Erigeron annuus and newly fashionable plants, by Mary Keen 12: 17

Erskine, Sir Peter and Lady (8: 63): their walled gardens at Cambo Estate, Fife 8: 58–63

Eryngium:root cuttings 11: 83, 83planum 8: 62

Erysimum Winter Orchid 4: 12, 12

Eschscholzia californica 12: 44

Eucomis:planting 2: 26vandermerwei ‘Octopus’ 10: 56

Euonymus:alatus 11: 36, 37, 40

‘Compactus’ 11: 40cornutus var. quinquecornutus 11: 40

europaeus 11: 40‘Red Cascade’ 11: 40

grandiflorus 11: 37, 40Euphorbia:

its supposed deterrent effect on moles, by Matthew Biggs 5: 23

reader response 7: 19cornigera 6: 48, 48polychroma 3: 72, 72; 6: 48

‘First Blush’ 6: 45, 48wallichii 6: 48

Eve, André (6: 51): his rose garden in Pithiviers, France, by Jacky Hobbs 6: 50–53

Evelyn, John: campaign to save site of his garden at Sayes Court, Deptford 1: 9

evening primrose (see Oenothera)

evergreens:broad-leaved hedges 10: 24–25

deposits on leaves 12: 27pruning 3: 54

DID YOU KNOW? monthly column by Mike Grant

bulbs, corms and tubers defined 11: 17

chilling requirements in plants 2: 15reader response 4: 16

climbing methods in plants 4: 15

dimorphic leaves 12: 13dioecious plants 7: 17fasciation 8: 17movement in plants 6: 13

nectar 9: 15reader response 11: 18

nitrogen-fixing plants as fertiliser 10: 15

petals, sepals and tepals 3: 15

scientific names of plants 5: 21

winter retention of dead leaves 1: 15

ENVIRON MENTsee also Wildlife panel

invasive water plants 8: 76

National Planning Policy Framework 5: 12

peat: replacing in horticulture 1: 68–71

wildflower seed mixes 10: 12

Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust: its Rain Garden, Barnes, London 11: 74–78


Fallopia – Geranium phaeum

FFallopia:

japonica 11: 31, 31as an alien invasive 3: 16

Fargesia:angustissima 11: 69denudata 11: 68murielae ‘Simba’ 11: 28, 66, 69

nitida 11: 66, 69farming, intensive: its effect on wildlife 4: 72

Farrell, Holly, on: pruning shrubs 3: 52–54

fasciated Tropaeolum 11: 19

fasciation, by Mike Grant 8: 17

Fergusson, Kirsty, on: Le Jardin Exotique et Botanique à Roscoff, Brittany, France 1: 38–43

fertilisers:nitrogen-fixing plants, by Mike Grant 10: 15

organic and synthetic 8: 26–27

Field Research Facility, RHS Garden Wisley 6: 8

figs: planting in pits, by Matthew Biggs 4: 17

Fiji: new species of Medinilla discovered 3: 9

finches: decline in numbers 12: 29

first garden at Chiswick, RHS 1: 60

fish in garden ponds 8: 76Fish, Margery 11: 45flavours to complement the season 10: 44–47

fleece, horticultural 5: 63flies in compost 9: 26, 26Florist Holland 3: 69flower sprout ‘Petit Posy’ 11: 62

flowering lawns:

at Avondale Park, London 12: 9

RHS research 12: 9focal points in design, by Mary Keen 9: 19

foliage: preventing frost damage 3: 24

food webs 5: 71Foreman, David 10: 98forking and splitting in root crops 8: 28, 28

Forrest, George 9: 44fossil plant slides: Darwin’s collection 3: 9, 9

Fothergilla major 11: 40Foxgrove Plants, Newbury, Berks, by Roy Lancaster 2: 74–77

fragrance in a Cotswolds front garden 11: 56–58

Fraxinus:ash dieback (Chalara fraxinea) 8: 10; 10: 16; 12: 8

angustifolia 8: 10‘Pendula’ 8: 10

excelsior 8: 10Frith Old Farmhouse, near Faversham, Kent, by Janine Wookey 5: 38–42

frogs 9: 70frogspawn 8: 75front gardens:

disappearance of 10: 10; 11: 45

initiative in Rochester, Kent, by Daniela Jankowska 11: 52–53

their beneficial influence, by Nick Turrell 11: 23

frost:and snow, plantings to enhance the effects of 12: 30–33

by Matthew Pottage 12: 48–49

damage:autumn 12: 49spring 12: 49preventing 3: 24; 12: 49

effects of on clay pots 12: 22

prediction formula 12: 48

fruit (see panel)fruit fly, spotted wing (Drosophila suzukii) 12: 29, 29

Fuchsia:overwintering 2: 26‘Billy Green’ 9: 40‘Dollar Prinzessin’ 5: 35‘Lady in Black’ 6: 10, 10‘¬alia’ 7: 106, 106

Fulcher, Richard: award of Associate of Honour 7: 12

Fulham Palace Garden, London: restoration project 10: 9

Full Frontal community gardening project, Rochester, Kent 11: 52–53

fungi:beefsteak (Fistula hepatica) 2: 29, 29

bracket, by Andrew Halstead 2: 29

chicken of the woods fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) 2: 29, 29

DNA sequencing of UK native species 2: 29

Ggabions 3: 66gage Reine-Claude Group 10: 47, 47

galanthophilia 2: 55Galanthus:

aberrant, by Nigel Colborn 1: 21

at Colesbourne Park, Gloucs, by Stephen

Anderton 2: 52–56division 2: 56

‘in the green’ 2: 56planting ‘in the green’, by Matthew Biggs 1: 17

elwesii 2: 54, 75–76‘Carolyn Elwes’ 2: 54–55, 54

‘Comet’ 2: 56, 76var. elwesii ‘Maidwell L’ 2: 74, 76

‘Godfrey Owen’ 2: 77var. monostictus ‘Miller’s Late’ 2: 56

‘Mrs Macnamara’ 2: 76, 77

‘George Elwes’ 2: 54‘Hippolyta’ 2: 56‘Hobson’s Choice’ 1: 67‘Lord Lieutenant’ 2: 54‘Magnet’ 2: 75, 75‘Mrs ¬ompson’ 2: 76nivalis 2: 77

f. pleniflorus:‘Doncaster’s Double Charmer’ 2: 77

‘Flore Pleno’ 2: 77‘Pusey Green Tips’ 2: 77

Scharlockii Group 2: 77

‘Warei’ 2: 77plicatus:

‘Augustus’ 2: 76, 76‘Colossus’ 2: 54‘Diggory’ 2: 56‘Percy Picton’ 2: 76‘Wendy’s Gold’ 2: 77, 77

reginae-olgae 2: 56‘S. Arnott’ 2: 56; 75

Garbutt, Simon, on:Anglesey Abbey, Cambs: its Winter Walk 1: 64–67

letter from John Sales on its design 3: 16

unusual fruit and vegetables at Paul Barney’s Berkshire nursery 3: 43–46

Garden Club of America and RHS Interchange Fellowship 10: 74

Garden Museum and RHS exhibition on plant hunters 9: 44–45

Garden Organic 2: 73its search for exotic seed 9: 52

gardeners (see also Plantsmen and women panel): their presence in historic gardens, by Lia Leendertz 1: 19

Gardenia:bud drop 12: 41by Phil Clayton 12: 40–41

cultural problems 12: 41feeding 12: 41hardy selections 12: 41pests and diseases 12: 41augusta 12: 40‘Crown Jewel’ 12: 41, 41jasminoides 12: 40

‘Ice Diamonds’ 12: 41, 41

‘Kleim’s Hardy’ 12: 41, 41

magnifica 12: 40gardening:

and wellbeing, by Chris Young 6: 13

as a career, by Alan Titchmarsh 4: 21

reader response 6: 14community: its benefits, by Tim Richardson 7: 47–50

in schools, by Lia Leendertz 9: 21

Gardening World Cup 2012 12: 10

‘garden-grabbing’ 5: 12gardens (see Gardens panel for individual garden profiles):as ecosystems, by Ken ¬ompson 5: 68–72

attracting visitors in a smaller world, by Chris Young 12: 13

domestic: their historic role, by Toby Musgrave 11: 44–45

in context, by Steve Head 4: 70–73

reader response 6: 14in the UK 4: 70their value to wildlife 6: 72

by Chris Young 4: 15Gardiner, Jim (4: 39), on: early magnolias 4: 34–39

Garnett-Botfield, Susan 9: 44

Gatti, Annie, on: tulip displays at Ulting Wick, Maldon, Essex 4: 44–49

Gentiana farreri, painted by Reginald Farrer 9: 44

Geranium:‘Azure Rush’ 6: 10, 10x cantabrigiense:

‘Biokovo’ and Hans Simon, by Roy Lancaster 7: 52–53, 52, 53

‘Cambridge’ 7: 53(Cinereum Group) ‘Ballerina’ 9: 55, 55

macrorrhizum:‘Czakor’ 7: 53‘Spessart’ 7: 53

x monacense 5: 50var. monacense ‘Breckland Fever’ 5: 50, 50

‘Orion’ 6: 114, 114phaeum 3: 72, 72

by James Armitage 5: 47–50, 50

cultivation 5: 50foliage 5: 49–50‘Advendo’ 5: 48, 49‘Album’ 5: 48, 48, 49‘All Saints’ 5: 48, 49‘Aureum’ 5: 49‘Blue Shadow’ 5: 48–49, 49

‘Conny Broe’ 5: 49‘Golden Samobor’ 5: 49

‘Golden Spring’ 5: 49

FRUITsee also Pests & Diseases and Vegetables panels

apples: curled leaves 6: 22–23

autumn planting: soft and bush fruit 10: 40

berries, hybrid: training 6: 22–23

cordons, establishing 1: 25

crops:as culinary seasonal complements, by Nigel Slater 10: 44–47

for the drier east and colder north 3: 28

damsons:and bullaces, by Gerry Edwards 8: 69–71

pruning 8: 26–27fruit trees: when to harvest 10: 22

gooseberries: cultivation 10: 24

heritage fruit and vegetables: their importance, by Toby

Musgrave 2: 72–73melons, supporting 7: 27, 27

North East Wales Orchards Initiative 3: 10

Physalis as crop plants, by John and Shirley Murrell 11: 70–71

pruning outdoor grapevines 11: 26–27

splitting 5: 35; 7: 24, 24strawberries:

60-day 4: 26–27, 75extending cropping times, by John Handford 4: 74–76

thinning fruit 8: 26–27types of fruit 9: 24–25unusual, at Paul Barney’s Berkshire nursery, by Simon Garbutt 3: 43–46

wines: unusual plants for home brews, by Susanne Masters 11: 86–88

FOODsee also Fruit and Vegetables panels

crops as culinary seasonal complements, by Nigel Slater 10: 44–47


lemon grass 9: 25, 25mushrooms, button (Agaricus bisporus): growing at home 11: 27

Physalis fruits 11: 70–71



GARDENSsee also Garden Design and RHS Gardens panels

Anglesey Abbey, Cambs: its Winter Walk, by Simon Garbutt 1: 64–67letter from John Sales on its design 3: 16

Cambo Estate walled gardens, Fife, by Jo Whittingham 8: 58–63

Dy�ryn Fernant, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, by Noel Kingsbury 10: 54–57

Easton Walled Gardens near Grantham, Lincs, by Bunny Guinness 7: 54–59

Eve, André: his rose garden in Pithiviers, France, by Jacky Hobbs 6: 50–53, 51

Frith Old Farmhouse, near Faversham, Kent, by Janine Wookey 5: 38–42

Colesbourne Park, Gloucs: its Galanthus collection, by Stephen Anderton 2: 52–56

gardens in small spaces 11: 43–58

Godfrey, Annie: her Hertfordshire garden, by Naomi Slade 8: 30–33

Hidden Valley Gardens, Par, Cornwall, by Sorcha Hitchcox 8: 47–49

Kreutzberger, Sibylle, and Pamela Schwerdt: their Cotswolds garden, by Andrew Lawson 7: 34–38

Le Jardin Exotique et Botanique à Rosco�, Brittany, France, by Kirsty Fergusson 1: 38–43

London Wetland Centre: its Rain Garden, by Richard Sneesby 11: 74–78

Raworth, Jenny and Richard: their garden in Twickenham, by Nigel Colborn 6: 30–34

McNeil Wilson, Judy and John: their garden at Chestnut Farm, Holt, Norfolk, by Tim Ingram 2: 30–34

Stuart-Smith, Tom and Sue: their Hertfordshire garden, by Andrew Wilson 3: 32–38

Strong, Judith and Michael: their south London garden, by Vanessa Berridge 5: 75–77

Ulting Wick, Maldon, Essex, by Annie Gatti 4: 44–49


Geranium phaeum – Hamamelis vernalis

‘Green Ghost’ 5: 48var. hungaricum 5: 48, 49

‘Lily Lovell’ 5: 48, 49‘Lisa’ 5: 49, 49var. lividum 5: 48‘Maggie’s Delight’ 5: 50

‘Margaret Wilson’ 5: 48, 50

‘Mierhausen’ 5: 48, 49

‘Our Pat’ 5: 48, 49var. phaeum ‘Samobor’ 5: 49, 49

‘Rachel’s Rhapsody’ 5: 50

‘Ray of Light’ 5: 50‘Rose Madder’ 5: 48‘Séricourt’ 5: 50‘Springtime’ 5: 49, 50‘Stillingfleet Ghost’ 5: 48, 49

‘Taff’s Jester’ 5: 50‘Variegatum’ 5: 50

reflexum 5: 50‘Katara Pass’ 5: 50, 50

sanguineum:painted by Lilian Snelling 7: 21

‘Elsbeth’ 7: 53Gerbera:

cultivation 3: 69hardy, by Graham Clarke 3: 68–69

Everlast Series 3: 69Everlast Carmine (‘Amgerbcar’) 3: 68

Everlast Honey 3: 10, 10

Everlast Pink (‘Amgerbpink’) 3: 68, 69

Everlast White (‘Amgerbwhi’) 3: 68

Garvinea Series 3: 69Garvinea Brandy 3: 68Garvinea Catherine 3: 68

Garvinea Cindy (‘Garcindy’) 3: 68

Garvinea Orangina (‘Orangina’) 3: 68

Garvinea Summer (‘Summer’) 3: 68

Garvinea Valerie 3: 68Landscape Series 3: 69

Get Your Grown-Ups Growing campaign, RHS 10: 73winner 2011 7: 83

gherkins:outdoor 5: 31problems 5: 31recommended for pickling 5: 31

‘Bimbostar’ 5: 31‘Diamant’ 5: 31

giboshi (hosta shoots) 7: 73

Ginkgo:biloba 11: 36, 37

‘Troll’ 11: 36Gladiolus:

planting 2: 26communis subsp. byzantinus 9: 44

Glasgow Botanic Gardens 1: 60Kibble Palace 1: 61

glasshouse:crops 3: 63mealybugs 11: 31pests, by Andrew Halstead 7: 40–41

sterilisation: sulphur candles 1: 17

ventilation 5: 62Glyptostrobus pensilis status in wild 2: 10

Godfrey, Annie (8: 33): her Hertford garden, by Naomi Slade 8: 30–33

Gongora new National Plant Collection 7: 11

gooseberries:AGM plants 10: 24Cape (see Physalis

peruviana)cultivation 10: 24Siberian (see Actinidia arguta)

‘Broom Girl’ 10: 24‘Invicta’ powdery mildew resistance 12: 24

Grant, Mike (see Did you know? panel)

Grant, Sue (11: 56–58, 57): her front garden in Charlbury, Oxon, by Andrew Lawson 11: 56–58

grapes:growing for wine at Wisley 11: 88

‘Fragola’ 10: 44, 45‘Orion’ 11: 88‘Phönix’ 11: 88

grapevine gall mite (Colomerus vitis) 11: 27, 27

grass snake 8: 75grasses:

dividing 4: 42in dynamic autumn combinations, by Martin Hughes-Jones 10: 49–52

recommended late-season 10: 52

Gray, Alec 4: 52Green, Nivea (9: 47): her collection of Gunnera 9: 47–49

green roofs 4: 73at Coutts, London WC2 11: 14, 14

RHS research into using broad-leaved plants for 12: 8

green skills gap 6: 8RHS steering group 9: 10

green space: new guidance on planning decisions 9: 8

green waste as a growing

medium 1: 49with grit 2: 46with perlite 2: 46with vermiculite 2: 45

greenfinches: recent decline 12: 29

greens for autumn sowing 9: 26

Gregory, Norma (botanical artist) 3: 78

Gress, Anisa, on:bringing new people into horticulture 4: 22–23

plantings in the Olympic Park 8: 14

Grevillea:‘Bairnsdale’ 8: 66‘Big Red’ 8: 66juniperina ‘Molonglo’ 8: 66, 66, 67

lanigera ‘Mount Tamboritha’ 8: 66, 66

rhyolitica 8: 66, 66victoriae 8: 64

‘Murray Valley Queen’ 8: 66

grey water, use of 6: 15Grierson, Mary (obituary) 4: 12, 12

Griffiths, Kaye (2: 71), on: the alpine house, RHS Garden Harlow Carr 2: 69–71

Grimshaw, John (2: 55), on: Hepatica 2: 36–39

grit as a growing medium 2: 46with coir 2: 46with green waste 2: 46with wood fibre 2: 46

ground elder (see Aegopodium podagraria)

groundcover roses, pruning 9: 29

Groves, Madeleine: award of MBE 8: 10

growing bags, vegetables

in 3: 66growing media (see also peat):developments 2: 15peat-free 2: 43–46preparing 2: 44–45replacing peat in horticulture 1: 68–71

reader response 4: 17guava, Chilean (see Ugni molinae)

Guinness, Bunny, on: Ursula Cholmeley’s gardens near Grantham, Lincs 7: 54–59

Gunn, Alastair, on: peony Itoh hybrids 5: 78–79

Gunnera:as an alien invasive 3: 16by James Armitage 9: 47–49

hardiness 9: 48in the wild 9: 48National Plant Collection 9: 47, 48

dentata 9: 48flavida 9: 48hamiltonii 9: 48, 49, 49magellanica 9: 48, 49, 49

manicata 9: 47, 48, 49, 49

monoica 9: 48, 49, 49perpensa 9: 48, 48, 49, 49

prorepens 9: 48tinctoria 9: 49, 49

HHalstead, Andrew, on:

blue tits 1: 29, 29bracket fungi 2: 29, 29common lizard 5: 37, 37controlling glasshouse

pests 7: 40–41the dark-edged bee-fly 4: 33, 33

earwigs 3: 31, 31green tiger beetle 6: 29, 29

green woodpeckers 12: 29, 29

parent bugs 9: 31, 31puss moths 8: 23, 23rabbits 10: 31, 31speckled bush crickets 11: 33

tawny owls 7: 33, 33reader response 9: 17, 17

Hamamelis:at Swallow Hayes, W Midlands, by Val Bourne 1: 50–53

cultivation 1: 52National Plant Collections 1: 50–53

pruning for compactness 1: 22

x intermedia 1: 50‘Angelly’ 1: 51, 52‘Aphrodite’ 1: 52, 53, 53

‘Arnold Promise’ 1: 53‘Aurora’ 1: 52‘Barmstedt Gold’ 1: 53, 53

‘Diane’ 1: 50, 50‘Foxy Lady’ 1: 10, 10‘Gingerbread’ 1: 52‘Glowing Embers’ 1: 52

‘Harry’ 1: 53, 53‘Jelena’ 1: 50‘Livia’ 1: 53, 53‘Pallida’ 1: 50–51‘Robert’ 1: 50‘Vesna’ 1: 50, 53, 53

mollis:‘Brevipetala’ and ‘Pallida’, painted by Graham Stuart ¬omas 1: 19

vernalis ‘Sandra’ 11: 37, 40

GARDEN DESIGN AND PLANTINGSsee also Container Gardening panel and show reports under RHS Shows

bamboos for smaller gardens, by Jon Ardle 11: 64–69

bog gardens 8: 48, 48–49

borders, summer 8: 49, 49

colour combinations at Hidden Valley Gardens, Par, Cornwall, by Sorcha Hitchcox 8: 47–49

colour-theming and late-season plantings at Woodbury Cottage, Reigate, Surrey, by Val Bourne 9: 32–37

decking in a small space: Aileen Scoular’s garden in London E4, by Martyn Cox 11: 48–51

design archive, The Garden Museum, London SE1 7: 10

designer gardens at Les Jardins de Métis, Quebec, by Rory Stuart 12: 19

Easton Walled Gardens near Grantham, Lincs,

by Bunny Guinness 7: 54–59

focal points in design, by Mary Keen 9: 19

garden ‘rooms’ in Richard and Jenny Raworth’s Twickenham garden, by Nigel Colborn 6: 30–34

Godfrey, Annie: her Hertfordshire garden designed without a lawn 8: 30–33

grasses in dynamic autumn combinations, by Martin Hughes-Jones 10: 49–52

naturalistic borders at Cambo Estate walled gardens, Fife, by Jo Whittingham 8: 58–63

naturalistic plantings at Frith Old Farmhouse, near Faversham, Kent, by Janine Wookey 5: 38–42

parterre with pastel plantings 8: 48, 48

perennial plantings in

Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith’s Hertfordshire garden 3: 32–38

planting for a long season 5: 42

plantings harmonious with local landscape at Christina Shand and David Allum’s Pembrokeshire garden, by Noel Kingsbury 10: 54–57

sensory plantings in Sue Grant’s Cotswold garden, by Andrew Lawson 11: 56–58

small spaces, ideas for (see Smaller Spaces panel)

spring flowers at Chestnut Farm, Holt, Norfolk, by Tim Ingram 2: 30–34

subtropical plantings at Le Jardin Exotique et Botanique à Rosco�, Brittany, France 1: 38–43

tulip planting combinations:

in Judith and Michael Strong’s south London garden, by Vanessa Berridge 5: 75–77

in Philippa and Bryan Burrough’s Essex garden, by Annie Gatti 4: 44–49

Wareham, Anne, and Charles Hawes: their use of plants for visual e�ect at Veddw House Garden, Devauden, Monmouthshire, by Chris Young 12: 54–59

wetland gardens at the London Wetland Centre, by Richard Sneesby 11: 74–78

winter plantings:at Anglesey Abbey, Cambs, by Simon Garbutt 1: 64–67

at Michael and Mercedes Ho�man’s Cotswolds garden, by Mary Keen 12: 30–33

GARDEN HISTORYCamellia at London shows, by Nigel Colborn 2: 64–66

gardens, domestic: their historic role, by Toby Musgrave 11: 44–45

heritage fruit and vegetables: their importance, by Toby Musgrave 2: 72–73

plant-hunters: an RHS/Garden Museum exhibition, by Lucy Waitt 9: 44–45

Queen Elizabeth, HM: changes in gardening during her reign, by Tim Richardson 5: 89–92

subscription botanic gardens in the 19th century, by Ann Brooks 1: 58–61

GARDEN PRACTICEautumn planting, by Toby Buckland 10: 36–41

cuttings, tender perennial, by Nick Morgan 8: 55–57

frost, by Matthew Pottage 12: 48–49

lawns: discoloured patches 4: 24

peat, sowing without, by Nick Morgan 2: 43–46

pruning shrubs, by Holly Farrell 3: 52–54

root cuttings:by Guy Barter 11: 81–83

good species for 11: 83

soil conditioners, by Tony Dickerson 1: 47–49

watering in drought, by Julie Hollobone 6: 57–59


Hampton – insect

Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, RHS (see RHS Shows panel)

Hancock, Arthur James (obituary) 5: 16, 16

Handford, John, on: extending strawberry cropping times 4: 74–76

hanging baskets: vegetables 3: 66

hardening off, by Matthew Biggs 5: 61–63

hardiness ratings, new RHS 8: 11

Hardy, Rosy (6: 114) on Geranium ‘Orion’ 6: 114, 114

Harkin, Sean (8: 40), on: Helenium at Wisley 8: 40

Harlow Carr Medal 7: 12harmony with local landscape at Christina Shand and David Allum’s Pembrokeshire garden, by Noel Kingsbury 10: 54–57

Harvey, Roger 4: 67his nursery in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 4: 66

on: Polygonatum 6: 61–64

reader response 8: 18Harveys Garden Plants, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, by Roy Lancaster 4: 65–68

Hatch, Lucas 9: 74, 74Hawes, Charles 12: 57hazel, witch (see Hamamelis)

Head, Steve, on:gardeners and wildlife gardening 9: 68–71

plants and soils 7: 66–69

the role of gardens in biodiversity 4: 70–73

reader response 6: 14Hebe ‘Rhubarb and Custard’ 12: 10, 10

Hedera dimorphic leaves 12: 13

hedgehog recording 2: 29hedges:

autumn planting 10: 39broad-leaved evergreen 10: 24–25

dieback in conifers 9: 25habitats for wildlife 6: 71; 7: 67

use of at Veddw House Garden, Devauden, Monmouthshire 12: 59

Hedychium densiflorum ‘Sorung’ 8: 64, 65

Helenium:by Martin Hughes-Jones 8: 36–40

from seed 8: 38, 40in borders and natural-istic plantings 8: 38

plant health 8: 40plantings at Wisley 8: 40, 40

autumnale 8: 38‘Biedermeier’ 8: 39bigelovii 8: 38‘Chipperfield Orange’ 8: 39

‘El Dorado’ 8: 36, 36‘Feuersiegel’ 8: 39‘Flammendes

Käthchen’ 8: 36, 37‘Flammenrad’ 8: 36, 36‘Gartensonne’ 8: 39‘Indianersommer’ 8: 39‘Kanaria’ 8: 39‘Königstiger’ 8: 39‘Kugelsonne’ 8: 39‘Kupferziegel’ 8: 39‘Lambada’ 8: 39‘Margot’ 8: 36, 37‘Moerheim Beauty’ 8: 36, 37

‘Ragamuffin’ 8: 36, 37, 38

‘Rauchtopas’ 8: 1, 36, 36‘Riverton Beauty’ 8: 36, 37

‘Rubinzwerg’ 8: 36, 36; 10: 49

‘Sahin’s Early Flowerer’ 8: 36, 37

‘Waltraut’ 8: 39‘Zimbelstern’ 8: 39

Helianthus:annuus ‘Claret’ 8: 98, 98tuberosus (see artichoke, Jerusalem)

Helichrysum petiolare ‘Goring Silver’ 5: 35

hellebore black death 2: 25, 25

hellebore leaf spot (Coniothyrium hellebori) 2: 25, 25

Helleborus:as evergreen foliage plants, by Graham Rice 2: 60–63

diseases 2: 25downy mildew 2: 25for foliage: planting companions 2: 62

argutifolius 2: 60, 60, 63, 63

‘Pacific Frost’ 2: 63‘Silver Lace’ 2: 60, 63

x ballardiae 2: 63‘HGC Cinnamon Snow’ 2: 63, 63

x ericsmithii 2: 60, 62, 63

‘Bob’s Best’ 2: 63, 63‘Winter Moonbeam’ 2: 61, 63

foetidus 2: 60, 61, 62, 62, 63

‘Gold Bullion’ 2: 62, 63

‘Sopron’ 2: 63Wester Flisk Group 2: 62, 63

‘Yellow Wilgenbroek’ 2: 63, 63

x hybridus 1: 67Ashwood Garden hybrid 2: 33

‘Ivory Prince’ 2: 61, 63lividus 2: 60, 63

‘White Marble’ 2: 61, 63

multifidus subsp. hercegovinus 2: 62, 63

niger:by Phil Clayton 1: 62–63, 62, 63

feeding 1: 63in pots 1: 63named seed strains 1: 63


preferred sites 1: 63Blackthorn Group 1:

63Harvington hybrids 1: 63

‘Potter’s Wheel’ 1: 63(Rodney Davey Marbled Group) ‘Anna’s Red’ 2: 10, 10

‘Silver Dollar’ 2: 60, 61, 63

x sternii 2: 61, 63Blackthorn Group 2: 60, 60, 63

‘Boughton Beauty’ 2: 60, 63

torquatus 5: 22Henry, Augustine 2: 54Hepatica:

by John Grimshaw 2: 36–39

cultivation 2: 37–38in Japan 2: 38acutiloba 2: 37, 39

x nobilis 2: 39americana 2: 37, 39falconeri 2: 38henryi 2: 38maxima 2: 38x media:

‘Ballardii’ 2: 37, 39‘Harvington Beauty’ 2: 37

‘Millstream Merlin’ 2: 38, 39

nobilis 2: 36, 37, 38, 39compact strain 2: 39‘Cremar’ 2: 37var. japonica 2: 38

f. magna 2: 38, 38pink-flowered 2: 37

purple-flowered 2: 37

var. pubescens 2: 38x H. transsilvanica ‘Professor Friedrich Hildebrandt’ 2: 37

var. pyrenaica 2: 37, 39

‘Rubra Plena’ 2: 37x schlyteri 2: 39

hybrids 2: 37transsilvanica 2: 37, 38, 39

‘Blue Jewel’ 2: 37‘Buis’ 2: 37‘Elison Spence’ 2: 37, 39

yamatutai 2: 38herbs:

for windowsills 11: 26from supermarkets 11: 26

heritage fruit and vegetables: their importance, by Toby Musgrave 2: 72–73

heritage fruit cultivars: preservation in Wales 3: 10

Hesperis matronalis var. albiflora 3: 34–35

Hestercombe House, Somerset 4: 11

Heuchera:rust (Puccinia heucherae) 6: 23, 23

‘Delta Dawn’ 7: 14, 14x Heucherella ‘Sunrise Falls’ 5: 16, 16

Hewitt-Cooper, Nigel (11: 61), on: the Venus’ fly trap’s mechanism 11: 61

Hidden Valley Gardens, Par, Cornwall, by Sorcha Hitchcox 8: 47–49, 48

Hide, David, on: dividing plants 4: 41–43

Hillier, Sir Harold, research into 5: 22, 22

Himalayacalamus falconeri 11: 69

Hippeastrum:by Phil Clayton 2: 58–59choosing 2: 59feeding 2: 59growing outdoors 2: 59potting up 2: 59reflowering 2: 59‘Benfica’ 2: 59‘Chico’ 2: 59‘Christmas Star’ 2: 58cybister 2: 58‘Lemon Star’ 2: 59‘Misty’ 2: 59‘Novella’ 2: 59papilio 2: 59, 59‘Ruby Meyer’ 2: 59, 59‘Splash’ 2: 59, 59‘Swan Lake’ 2: 59, 59‘Toughie’ 2: 59

Hitchcox, Sorcha, on: Tricia and Peter Howard’s Hidden Valley Gardens, Par, Cornwall 8: 47–49

Hobbs, Jacky, on: André Eve’s rose garden in Pithiviers, France 6: 50–53

Hobbs, Richard, on: Muscari 3: 57–60

Hodgson, Ian, on:Dahlia in containers 4: 58–62

recent botanical art 3: 77–80

shallots 1: 54–56reader response 3: 16

vegetables for small spaces 3: 62–67

Hoffman, Michael and Mercedes: their winter-themed garden at Little Barrow, Gloucs, by Mary Keen 12: 30–33

Hollobone, Julie, on:RHS trial of Lobelia 2: 48–51

watering in drought 6: 57–59

home-brewed wines, unusual 11: 86–88

honeyberry (see Lonicera caerulea var. edulis)

honours and awards, RHS 7: 12

honours, awards to horticulture: New Year 2: 8Queen’s Birthday 8: 10; 10: 9

Hook Lane Primary School, Kent 7: 83

Hooker, Sir Joseph 2: 54Hopper, Stephen 8: 10hops (see Humulus lupulus)

hormone rooting powders 8: 29

horse chestnut: leaf blotch 7: 28, 28leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) 7: 28

control 1: 16–17; 2: 9

damage 7: 28its origins 12: 29

horsetail (see Equisetum arvense)

Horticultural Taxonomy Group (Hortax) 9: 21

horticulture:and ecology, reconciling, by Nigel Colborn 7: 23

reader response 9: 16as a career:

by Alan Titchmarsh 4: 21


promoting 4: 22–23RHS conference on 6: 8

its future, by Mary Keen 8: 20

Hosta:by Jon Ardle 7: 72–75containers 7: 75controlling slugs and snails 7: 28, 74–75

edibility (letter on) 11: 18origins 7: 73planting combinations 7: 74

selecting 7: 73‘Albomarginata’ 7: 72‘Allegan Fog’ 7: 75‘Big Daddy’ 7: 74, 75‘Blue Mouse Ears’ 7: 73, 75

‘Devon Green’ 7: 75‘El Niño’ 7: 75‘Empress Wu’ 7: 73‘Frances Williams’ 7: 72‘Liberty’ 7: 75‘Lucky Mouse’ 9: 12, 12‘Orange Marmalade’ 7: 75

‘Praying Hands’ 7: 74‘Revolution’ 7: 75‘Risky Business’ 7: 74sieboldiana var. elegans 7: 72

‘Sum and Substance’ 7: 72, 73

‘Touch of Class’ 7: 74‘Whirlwind’ 7: 74‘White Feather’ 7: 72, 75

Houghton, Andy (2: 59), on: growing Hippeastrum outdoors 2: 59

houseplant care in winter 12: 27

Howard, Tricia and Peter (8: 48), of Hidden Valley Gardens, Par, Cornwall 8: 47–49

Hughes-Jones, Martin, on:grasses in dynamic autumn combinations 10: 49–52

Helenium 8: 36–40Hull Botanic Gardens 1: 59, 60

Humulus lupulus:cultivation 11: 28hops for home-brewing 11: 28

recommended cultivars 11: 28

‘Golden Tassels’ 11: 28Hunt, Leigh (11: 45), on: conserving suburban gardens 11: 45

Hunt, Terry, on: Arisaema 7: 71

Hutchings, Jeff (5: 83), on:

Dactylorhiza plantings 5: 83

hyacinth, grape (see Muscari)

Hyacinthoides:bluebell identification 4: 31

hispanica 4: 31, 31x massartiana 4: 31, 31non-scripta 4: 31, 31

Hyacinthus: orientalis:

‘Chicago’ 11: 19; 12: 70, 70

‘Royal Navy’ 7: 10, 10; 11: 19, 19

Hydrangea:painted by Noriko Watanabe 3: 78

aspera Villosa Group 9: 106, 106

quercifolia 11: 37, 40serrata ‘Momo-beni-gaku’ 9: 12, 12

Hymenophyllum tunbrigense: disappearance of colony at Nymans, W Sussex 2: 9

Iice plant (see Sedum)ice-age plant 5: 13ideas for small spaces 11: 43–58

Ilex:dimorphic leaves 12: 13x altaclerensis ‘Golden King’ 7: 17

crenata ‘Golden Gem’ 12: 90, 90

illustration, botanical 3: 77–80

impatiens downy mildew (Plasmopara obducens) 3: 8; 5: 35by Liz Beal 5: 44–45managing 5: 45resistance 5: 45

Impatiens:busy lizzie alternatives 5: 35, 45

glandulifera movement in 6: 13

Sunpatiens Series 5: 35; 44, 45, 45

walleriana 5: 44–45disease in trade 3: 8

improvements in gardening, by Chris Young 5: 21

Indocalamus:invasiveness 11: 66tessellatus 11: 69

Ingram, Collingwood (‘Cherry’) 3: 41

Ingram, Tim (8: 35), on:spring flowers in Judy and John McNeil Wilson’s garden at Chestnut Farm, Holt, Norfolk 2: 30–34

Yucca whipplei 8: 35, 35insect life at RHS Garden Wisley, monitoring 3: 70–72


Insect Pollinators Initiative – Le Gros

Insect Pollinators Initiative, UK 12: 44

invasive water plants 8: 76invertebrates: their representation in conservation plans 11: 33

Iris:bearded irises:

by Anne Blanco White 5: 54–59

classification 5: 54–56, 56

colour 5: 57cultivation 5: 57–58planting and dividing 5: 58–59

recommended cultivars 5: 54, 56, 57, 58, 59

Border Bearded 5: 57bulbous, by Alan Street 1: 30–34

early:choosing 1: 33cultivating 1: 33–34planting combinations 1: 33

flower structure 5: 56Intermediate Bearded 5: 54, 56

Miniature Tall Bearded 5: 58

new collection at RHS Garden Rosemoor 9: 8

reblooming 5: 56–57remontant 5: 56–57space-age 5: 56–57Standard Dwarf Bearded 5: 59

Tall Bearded 5: 54, 56‘Alida’ 1: 31‘Alison Taylor’ 5: 56, 56‘Apricot Drops’ 5: 58, 58‘Baboon Bottom’ 5: 57, 57

‘Bangles’ 5: 1, 58, 58‘Bedford Lilac’ 5: 59, 59‘Bermuda Triangle’ 5: 57, 57

‘Blue Note’ 1: 30‘Bockingford’ 5: 58, 58‘Broadleigh Lavinia’ 4: 54, 54

‘Bumblebee Deelite’ 5: 58, 58

‘Cameo Queen’ 5: 59, 59‘Cantab’ 1: 30, 33‘Cranapple’ 5: 57, 57danfordiae 1: 30, 33‘Early Light’ 5: 54, 54, 55‘Elizabeth Poldark’ 5: 54, 54

‘Flames of Passion’ 5: 54, 54

‘Flirting Again’ 5: 59, 59‘Fritillary Flight’ 5: 56, 56

‘George’ 1: 31, 33, 34germanica 5: 54

from Redouté’s Les Liliacées 5: 25

‘Gordon’ 1: 30, 33histrioides:

‘Angel’s Tears’ 1: 33‘Lady Beatrix Stanley’ 1: 31, 33

‘Major’ 1: 33‘J.S. Dijt’ 1: 31, 32, 33‘Jane Phillips’ 5: 54japonica ‘Variegata’ 4: 66, 68

‘Joyce’ 1: 31‘Jungle Shadows’ 5: 57, 57

‘Katharine Hodgkin’ 1: 31, 32, 33, 34

‘Katie-Koo’ 5: 56, 56lutescens ‘Campbellii’ 5: 58

‘Mary Constance’ 5: 56, 56

‘Night Gown’, painted by Jean Emmons 3: 77

‘Orange Order’ 5: 54, 54‘Orinoco Flow’ 5: 57, 57pallida subsp. pallida 11: 23

‘Palm Spring’ 1: 30‘Piste Noire’ 7: 14, 14pseudacorus 11: 78, 78reticulata 1: 1, 32, 32‘Sarah Taylor’ 5: 59, 59‘Sheila Ann Germaney’ 1: 30, 33

‘Somerset Blue’ 5: 54, 54‘Staplehurst’ 5: 58, 58‘Stinger’ 5: 59, 59‘Sunny Dawn’ 5: 56, 56

Irish potato famine 2: 73Isaac, Dawn, on: self-seeding plants 3: 21reader response 5: 23

Ischyrolepis subverticillata (see Restio subverticillatus)

island beds 11: 45Ismelia carinata 12: 46Isoplexis 7: 10Itoh, Toichi 5: 78It’s Your Neighbourhood scheme, RHS 11: 53

JJankowska, Daniela, on:

Pippa Rosen’s collection of climbing French beans at ¬e Herbary 10: 58–60

street gardens in Rochester, Kent 11: 52–53

Jatropha multifida, painted by Claude Aubriet 9: 45

Jeffrey, Maurice: award of Harlow Carr Medal 7: 12

Jekka’s Herb Farm, near Bristol: its change of direction 11: 12

Jewell, David, on:

Cotoneaster 10: 66–69judging at RHS Shows 2: 64–66

Juniperus:communis: campaign to preserve Scottish populations 3: 9

pingii ‘Hulsdonk Yellow’ 11: 12, 12

juvenile cone 1: 15

Kkale:

cultivation 11: 62‘Fizz’ 11: 62‘Pentland Brig’ 11: 62

katsura (see Cercidiphyllum japonicum )

Kemp, Eddie E (obituary) 9: 10, 10

Kerdilès, Louis 1: 40khira 9: 52Kiefer, Helen 7: 53kingfisher 5: 70

Kingsbury, Noel, on: plantings harmonious with local landscape at Christina Shand and David Allum’s Pembrokeshire garden 10: 54–57

Kniphofia thomsonii var. thomsonii 8: 65, 66

knot garden 6: 32knotweed, Japanese (see Fallopia japonica)

kohlrabi:as a ‘catch crop’ 5: 31‘White Vienna’ 2: 72

Komarov, Vladimir, and Syringa komarowii, by Roy Lancaster 5: 64–65, 65

Kouwenhoorn, Pieter van 3: 80

Kreutzberger, Sibylle 7: 37and Pamela Schwerdt: the importance of gardening partnerships, by John Sales 7: 23

their garden in the Cotswolds 7: 34–38

LLablab purpureus 9: 52, 52

Lacey, Stephen, on: autumn colour for smaller gardens 11: 34–40

ladybirds:common British species 6: 24

harlequin (Harmonia axyridis) 5: 37, 37; 6: 24, 24; 7: 11

larvae 6: 24, 24seven-spot 5: 37; 6: 24, 24; 7: 11

two-spot 6: 24, 24; 7: 11Lamium orvala 4: 67, 68

‘Album’ 4: 67, 68Lamprocapnos spectabilis root cuttings 11: 83, 83

landscape, its importance, by Mary Keen 6: 17

Lane, Anthony: award of Harlow Carr Medal 7: 12

Lane, Chris: award of Veitch Memorial Medal 7: 12

Lantana:by Martin Einchcomb 9: 40–43

changes in colour 9: 42–43

cultivation 9: 43hardiness 9: 42National Plant Collection 9: 40

‘Aloha’ 9: 41, 42, 43‘Calippo Tucano’ 9: 43‘Calippo Tutti Frutti’ 9: 41

‘Calippo White’ 9: 43camara:

overwintering 9: 24, 24

painted by Elizabeth Smith 9: 19

‘Kolibri’ 9: 41, 42Lucky Red Hot Improved (‘Balucrehot’) changes in colour 9: 43, 43

Lucky Sunrise Rose (‘Balandrise’) 9: 41

changes in colour 9: 42–43, 42–43

‘Professor Raoux’ 9: 41

‘Snow White’ 9: 41, 42

‘Sonja’ 9: 41, 42white-flowered 9: 41

cream/pink-flowered selection 9: 41

‘Goldsome’ 9: 41, 42montevidensis 9: 40, 41, 42

‘Orange King’ 9: 42‘Radiation’ 9: 41, 42, 43‘Spreading Sunset’ 9: 41, 42

lantern, Chinese (see Physalis alkekengi var. franchetii)

Lathyrus odoratus:at Easton Walled Gardens, Lincs 7: 57

performance 6: 20sowing 3: 24–25‘Blue Shift’ 12: 70, 70Chelsea Centenary (‘Crystal’) 11: 12, 12

‘Diamond Jubilee’ 3: 10, 10

‘Duchy of Cambridge’ 12: 70

‘Janet Scott’ 6: 20‘Lipstick’ 6: 20‘Marbled Purple’ 7: 57

‘Mollie Rilstone’ 7: 57‘Mother of Pearl’ 12: 70‘Promise’ 7: 57‘Queen Alexandra’ 6: 20‘¬e Major’ 7: 57

Latin for Gardeners, RHS 11: 93

Lavandula:angustifolia wine 11: 87x intermedia ‘Olympia’ 8: 12, 12

Lavender Garden, ¬e, Gloucs: its Buddleja collection 9: 56–60

lavender wine 11: 87lawns:

chemical damage 4: 24cutting height and drought tolerance, by Matthew Biggs 6: 15

discoloured patches 4: 24

flowering, at Avondale Park, London 12: 9

keeping them green 11: 24

low-maintenance, by Nigel Colborn 2: 19;

reader response 4: 16Lawrence, David: award of OBE 8: 10

Lawrence Hall (previously New Hall) 2: 66

Lawrence, Sir Trevor 2: 66Lawson, Andrew, on:

Sibylle Kreutzberger and Pamela Schwerdt’s Cotswold garden 7: 34–38

Sue Grant’s front garden in Charlbury, Oxon 11: 56–58

Le Gros, Ian (1: 81), on: plans for 2012 at RHS Garden Hyde Hall 1: 81

INTER-NATIONAL GARDENING Les Jardins de Métis, Quebec, by Rory Stuart 12: 19

Eve, André: his rose garden in Pithiviers, France, by Jacky Hobbs 6: 50–53, 51

Le Jardin Exotique et Botanique à Rosco�, Brittany, France, by Kirsty Fergusson 1: 38–43

JOBS TO DO January 1: 23February 2: 23March 3: 23April 4: 25May 5: 29June 6: 21July 7: 25August 8: 25September 9: 23October 10: 23November 11: 25December 12: 21

ROY LANCASTERmonthly contributor(2: 74; 4: 65; 6: 45, 47; 8: 66)

Alan Postill and Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ 1: 36–37

Breezy Knees Nursery and Gardens, Warthill, York 6: 45–48

Charles Sargent and Prunus sargentii 3: 40–41

Chris Pattison’s nursery in Pendock, Gloucs 10: 62–65

Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ and Alan Bloom 9: 54–55

Foxgrove Plants, Newbury, Berks 2: 74–77

Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokovo’ and Hans Simon 7: 52–53

Harveys Garden Plants, Bury St Edmunds, Su�olk 4: 65–68

Lower Kenneggy Nurseries, Penzance, Cornwall 8: 64–67

Mahonia 12: 34–38Nathaniel Wallich and Dryopteris wallichiana 11: 84–85

Vladimir Komarov and Syringa komarowii 5: 64–65

LIA LEENDERTZ columnist(1: 19; 3: 21; 4: 19; 6: 19; 7: 21; 9: 21; 12: 19)

gardening in schools 9: 21

gardens in winter 12: 19growing vegetables as perennials 4: 19

making the most of allotments 6: 19

preserving parks 7: 21

temporary gardens 10: 19

the easiness of growing vegetables 3: 21reader response 5: 22

the presence of gardeners past 1: 19

MARY KEEN columnist(2: 21; 3: 19; 5: 27; 6: 17; 8: 20; 9: 19; 11: 23; 12: 17)

breaking the horticultural rules 2: 21

‘Desert Island Flowers’ 11: 23

Erigeron annuus and newly fashionable plants 12: 17

focal points in design 9: 19

horticulture’s future 8: 20

importance of landscape 6: 17

importance of science for gardeners 3: 19

why we plant 5: 27reader response 7: 18

winter plantings at Michael and Mercedes Ho�man’s Cotswolds garden 12: 30–33


Le Jardin Exotique – Mowle

Le Jardin Exotique et Botanique à Roscoff, Brittany, France, by Kirsty Fergusson 1: 38–43

leaf beet:and chard, by Liz Dobbs 6: 54–55

cultivation 6: 54harvesting 6: 54RHS trial 6: 55‘Green Wave’ 6: 55, 55

leafmould 1: 49making 10: 29

learning from nature, by Andrew Salisbury 6: 69–72

leatherjackets: nematode control 8: 24, 24

leaves, dimorphic, by Mike Grant 12: 13

Leeds, Rod 4: 122Legoff, Alain 1: 42lemon balm wine 11: 87lemon grass 9: 25, 25Lenten rose (see Helleborus x hybridus)

Les Jardins de l’Avenir, by Achille Duchêne: presentation to RHS Lindley Library 1: 75

Les Jardins de Métis, Quebec: designer gardens at, by Rory Stuart 12: 19

lettuce:‘Grise Maraîchère’ 10: 46‘Maikönig’ 10: 46

Leucanthemum x superbum ‘T.E. Killin’ 8: 14

Lewisia:by Phil Clayton 6: 36–37cultivation 6: 36–37in containers 6: 37wall plantings 6: 37Ashwood Carousel hybrids 6: 37, 37

columbiana 6: 36cotyledon:

‘Ashwood Ruby’ 6: 37, 37

Ashwood strain 6: 36–37

hybrids 6: 36rediviva 6: 37tweedyi 6: 36

Leyland cypress (see x Cuprocyparis leylandii)

Ligularia ‘Little Rocket’ 11: 78, 78

Lilium:lily beetle tolerance 5: 28

planting 2: 26

Defender Pink (‘Defender’) 5: 28

nepalense 7: 38‘¬e Torch’ 9: 12, 12

lily beetle (Lilioceris lilii) 5: 28, 28

Lindley Hall 2: 66Lindley Library (see RHS)Linnaeus 1: 60

his binomial system 5: 21

Liquidambar:acalycina 10: 65styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ 11: 114, 114

Liriodendron tulipifera ‘Aureomarginatum’ 10: 63

Little Barrow, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucs: Michael and Mercedes Hoffman’s garden, by Mary Keen 12: 30–33

Liverpool Botanic Garden 1: 58, 60, 61, 61Palm House 1: 61

lizard, common (Zootaca vivipara), by Andrew Halstead 5: 37, 37

Lobelia:for bedding 2: 48–51RHS trial, by Julie Hollobone 2: 48–51

erinusAGM plants 2: 51hardiness 2: 50in baskets 2: 50planting ideas 2: 51summer care 2: 51Blue Star (‘Wesstar’) 2: 48, 48

Ocean Pink 2: 49, 49Purple Star (‘Wespurstar’) 2: 49, 49, 51

‘Richardsonii’ 2: 48, 48, 50

Techno Heat Trailing Light Blue Improved (‘Lobstrahob’) 2: 48, 48, 51

Techno Heat Trailing White Improved (‘TecHewhitt’) 2: 48, 48

Waterfall Blue (‘Balobwablu’) 2: 51

Waterfall Blue Ice 2: 49, 49

Waterfall Deep Blue with Eye 2: 51

Waterfall Light Blue with Eye 2: 51

Hot Blue (‘Wesloblue’)

2: 49, 49‘Regatta Blue Splash’ 2: 48, 48

Waterfall Light Lavender (‘Balwalila’) 2: 49, 49

loganberry, training 6: 22London Orchard Project 11: 11

London Wetland Centre: its Rain Garden, by Richard Sneesby 11: 74–78

Lonicera:caerulea var. edulis 3: 43–44

x purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’ 2: 106, 106

Lophomyrtus National Plant Collection 10: 9

Loranthaceae taxonomy 12: 64

Loranthus europaeus 12: 64, 64

Loudon, John Claudius 2: 64; 11: 44

Low Value Consignment Relief 6: 9

Lower Kenneggy Nurseries, Penzance, Cornwall, by Roy Lancaster 8: 64–67

Luma National Plant Collection 10: 9

Lychnis flos-jovis ‘Peggy’ 6: 46–47

Lysichiton americanus as an alien invasive 3: 16

Lythrum salicaria 11: 78, 78

Mmagnesium deficiency 6: 24, 24; 7: 24, 24

Magnolia:best new cultivars 4: 39breeding 4: 39cultivation 4: 39early, by Jim Gardiner 4: 34–39

pruning 4: 28, 39‘Apollo’ 4: 36, 37‘Atlas’ 4: 36, 37Black Tulip (‘Jurmag1’) 4: 36, 38

‘Blushing Belle’ 4: 39‘Burgundy Star’ 4: 39, 39‘Caerhays Belle’ 4: 39campbellii 4: 1, 39

‘Darjeeling’ 4: 37denudata 4: 35‘F.J. Williams’ 4: 39Fairy Blush (‘Micjur01’) 2: 10, 10

Felix Jury (‘Jurmag2’) 4: 36, 38

‘Galaxy’ 4: 37‘Genie’ 4: 39grandiflora ‘Exmouth’ 7: 106, 106

‘J.C. Williams’ 4: 39kobus 4: 36

‘Norman Gould’ 4: 36‘Wisley Star’ 4: 36

liliiflora ‘Raven’ 4: 39x loebneri 4: 36

‘Leonard Messel’ 4:

36, 38‘Merrill’ 4: 36, 38

‘Mag’s Pirouette’ 4: 36‘Milky Way’ 4: 36, 37‘Morning Calm’ 4: 39, 39officinalis painted by Caroline Maria Applebee 4: 19

‘Peter Dummer’ 4: 38‘Pristine’ 4: 36, 38‘Rose Marie’ 4: 39‘Royal Splendour’ 4: 39sargentiana 3: 41, 41x soulangeana 4: 28, 34, 36, 38

‘Lennei Alba’ 4: 36‘Rustica Rubra’ 4: 36‘Triumphans’ 4: 36, 37

‘Star Wars’ 4: 36, 36stellata 4: 36, 39

‘Centennial’ 4: 36, 38‘Jane Platt’ 4: 36‘Scented Silver’ 4: 36, 37

x veitchii ‘Columbus’ 4: 36, 37

virginiana 4: 35magnolia vine (see Schisandra chinensis)

Mahonia:autumn flowering 12: 37–38

by Roy Lancaster 12: 34–38

cultivation 12: 36pruning 12: 23winter/spring flowering 12: 36–37

acanthifolia 12: 37aquifolium 12: 35, 37

‘Apollo’ 12: 37‘Atropurpurea’ 12: 36‘Green Ripple’ 12: 37

eurybracteata 12: 34, 36, 38

subsp. ganpinensis ‘Soft Caress’ 12: 34, 38

gracilipes 12: 34, 35, 37, 38

japonica 12: 34, 35, 36x media 12: 35, 36, 38

‘Buckland’ 12: 34, 35, 38

‘Charity’ 12: 34, 35, 38‘Charity’s Sister’ 12: 1, 34

‘Lionel Fortescue’ 12: 34, 35, 38

‘Underway’ 1: 98, 98‘Winter Sun’ 12: 36, 38

napaulensis 12: 34, 37nervosa 12: 34, 35, 35, 37

nitens 12: 34, 38‘Cabaret’ 12: 36

oiwakensis:subsp. lomariifolia 12: 34, 35, 36, 37–38, 37

var. tenuifoliola 12: 34, 38, 38

pallida 12: 35, 37pinnata 12: 37polyodonta 12: 34pumila 12: 35russellii 12: 34, 38, 38x savilliana 12: 38x wagneri 12: 36, 37

‘Moseri’ 12: 35, 37‘Pinnacle’ 12: 35, 37

Maianthemum:henryi 6: 64japonicum 6: 64

B&SWJ 4714 4: 66, 66

racemosum 6: 64tatsienense 6: 64, 64

‘Making Space for Nature’ report 4: 72

Malus:domestica (see apple)hupehensis 3: 72, 72tschonoskii 11: 37, 39

Malvern Spring Gardening Show 2012 7: 11

Manchester Botanic Garden 1: 58–59, 59, 60

mangetout ‘Shiraz’ 2: 10, 10

Manglietia 4: 35Manipur ‘in bloom’ (letter) 5: 22

manure:contaminated with weedkiller: update 2: 24–25

rotted 1: 49maple (see Acer)marguerite (see Argyranthemum)

Marsh Horticultural Science Award 2011 2: 81

Maruyama, Kimiyo (botanical artist) 3: 79

Massey, John (1: 63; 2: 37), on: named seed strains of Helleborus niger 1: 63

Masters, Susanne, on: unusual home-made wines 11: 86–88

McAllister, Hugh: award of Veitch Memorial Medal 7: 12

McConnell, Beverley: award of Veitch Memorial Medal 7: 12

McFarlane, Basil 9: 53, 53McGhee, Clare (botanical artist) 3: 79

McNeil Wilson, Judy (2: 32) and John: their garden at Chestnut Farm, Holt, Norfolk 2: 30–34

meadowland for wildlife 6: 70

mealybug 7: 41, 41; 11: 31Medinilla matasawalevu 3: 9, 9

medlars: when to harvest 10: 22

Melissa officinalis wine 11: 87

melons, supporting 7: 27, 27

Michelia 4: 35Miller, Diana M, on: scented-leaved pelargoniums 12: 50–53

Mimosa pudica 6: 13mini tunnels 5: 63miniaturised vegetables 3: 67

mirabelles 10: 47Miscanthus sinensis:

‘Ferner Osten’ 10: 52‘Silberfeder’ 7: 53

mistle thrushes (Turdus viscivorus) and mistletoe 12: 63, 63

mistletoe (see Viscum; also Arceuthobium, Loranthus)

Mistletoe League Project

2: 8; 12: 63, 64moles, supposed deterrent effect of Euphorbia on 5: 23reader response 7: 19

Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea ‘Windspiel’ 10: 52

Moore, Niall (Head of GB Non-Native Species Secretariat at Fera): response to David Pearman’s remarks on alien plants (e Garden, Dec 2011, p19) 3: 16

Morgan, Nick (12: 41), on:gardenia problems 12: 41

sowing without peat 2: 43–46

tender perennial cuttings 8: 55–57

Morina longifolia 2: 71, 71moss(es) 2: 24

controlling on lawns 11: 24

fire (Ceratadon purpureus) 2: 24, 24

pointed spear (Calliergonella cuspidata) 2: 24, 24

silver (Bryum argenteum) 2: 24, 24

springy turf (Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus) 2: 24, 24

moth(s):plants for 7: 66–69population, effect of wet summer on 10: 31

trap 9: 70barberry carpet (Pareulype berberata) 7: 68, 68

elephant hawk (Deilephila elpenor) 7: 69, 69; 8: 52, 52

gypsy (Lymantria dispar) 10: 16, 16

horse chestnut leaf-mining (see Aesculus)

oak processionary (aumetopoea processionea) 9: 9

palm borer (Paysandisia archon) 12: 9

pea (Cydia nigricana) 8: 27, 27

puss (Cerura vinula):by Andrew Halstead 8: 23, 23

larva 8: 23scarce burnished brass (Diachrysia chryson) 7: 68, 68

striped lychnis (Shargacucullia lychnitis; larva) 7: 69, 69

white satin (Leucoma salicis; larva) 7: 68, 68

mouse, wood 4: 71; 5: 72movement in plants, by Mike Grant 6: 13

‘Moving Up, Growing On’ (report on special educational needs and gardening) 4: 12

Mowle, ¬e, Ludham, Norfolk: its collection of Gunnera 9: 47–49

LIVING GARDENS SERIES see also Environment, Wildlife panels

Part 1: Plants for Bugs project, by Helen Bostock 3: 70–72

Part 2:gardens as ecosystems, by Ken Thompson 5: 68–72

gardens in context, by Steve Head 4: 70–73


Part 3: learning from

nature, by Andrew Salisbury 6: 69–72

Part 4: plants and soils, by Steve Head 7: 66–69

Part 5: water for wildlife, by Jeremy Biggs 8: 72–76

Part 6: gardeners and wildlife gardening, by Steve Head, Andrew Salisbury and Helen Bostock 9: 68–71


Mules – Pelargonium tomentosum

Mules, Stephen (Lower Kenneggy Nurseries, Penzance) 8: 64, 66

Murrell, John and Shirley, on: Physalis as crop plants 11: 70–71

mushrooms, button (Agaricus bisporus): growing at home 11: 27

Muscari:alpine beds 3: 58borders 3: 58–60by Richard Hobbs 3: 57–60

containers 3: 60invasive 3: 60National Plant Collection 3: 60

‘Aleyna’ 3: 58–60, 59armeniacum 3: 58, 60

‘Album’ 3: 59, 60‘Bowles’s Peacock’ 3: 59, 60

‘Christmas Pearl’ 3: 60

‘Early Giant’ 3: 58, 59aucheri var. bicolor 3: 59

‘Big Smile’ 3: 58–60, 59botryoides 3: 60

‘Album’ 3: 58, 59, 60bourgaei 3: 60commutatum 3: 58, 59discolor 3: 60latifolium 3: 59, 60macrocarpum ‘Golden Fragrance’ 3: 60, 60

‘Mount Hood’ 3: 59neglectum 3: 58, 59, 60parviflorum 3: 60‘Pink Sunrise’ 3: 59pseudomuscari 3: 58, 59

‘Sky Blue’ 3: 59, 60‘Winter Amethyst’ 3: 60

Musgrave, Toby, on:domestic gardens: their historic role 11: 44–45

heritage fruit and vegetables: their importance 2: 72–73

mushroom:compost, spent 1: 49kits 11: 27

Myrtus National Plant Collection 10: 9

Nnames of plants:

binomial 5: 21changes in, by James Armitage 9: 21

Narcissus:‘Jack Snipe’ 3: 114, 114‘Rijnveld’s Early Sensation’ 4: 54, 54

‘Tête-à-tête’ 4: 52National Fruit Collection 2: 73

National Gardening Week 2012, RHS 4: 80; 6: 8; 9: 75

National Gardens Scheme Elspeth ¬ompson bursary 12: 9

National Planning Policy

Framework 5: 12National Trust Plant Conservation Centre, Devon 8: 11

‘Natural Choice, ¬e’: Government white paper 1: 70

naturalistic borders at Cambo Estate walled gardens, Fife 8: 58–63

nectar:by Mike Grant 9: 15gardens as sources of 9: 70

plants 9: 22Nectaroscordum planting 2: 26

nematodes as pest controls 8: 24

Nepeta:x faassenii ‘Kit Cat’ 6: 46, 47

grandiflora ‘Bramdean’ 6: 47

racemosa ‘Snowflake’ 6: 46, 47

subsessilis ‘Blue Dreams’ 6: 47

Nerine bowdenii 7: 31, 31; 10: 56; 10: 98, 98

nettle wine 11: 87new introductions: keeping up, by Nigel Colborn 8: 21response from David Austin 10: 16

Newell, Karla and Andrew: their courtyard garden in Brighton, Sussex, by Pattie Baron 11: 54–55

newt 5: 71smooth 8: 75

Nex, Sally, on:increase in sales of wildflower seeds 10: 12

the disappearance of botany degrees 1: 13

reader response 3: 17nitrogen-fixing plants as fertiliser, by Mike Grant 10: 15

North East Wales Orchards Initiative 3: 10

Northumberlandia (land sculpture) 10: 10, 10

nut: definition 9: 24–25Nutt, Richard 2: 55Nymphaea ‘Pygmaea Helvola’ 8: 98, 98

Ooca (see Oxalis tuberosa)Occasional Papers from the RHS Lindley Library 11: 94

Oenothera:by Graham Rice 8: 50–53

National Plant Collection 8: 52

pollination 8: 52root cuttings 11: 83, 83‘Apricot Delight’ 8: 52biennis 8: 51caespitosa 8: 50‘Crown Imperial’ 8: 52fruticosa 8: 50, 52

‘Fyrverkeri’ 8: 52subsp. glauca 8: 52

‘Erica Robin’ 8: 52‘Sonnenwende’ 8: 53

glazioviana 8: 51Lemon Drop (‘Innoeno131’) 8: 52

macrocarpa 8: 50, 52subsp. incana 8: 14

odorata misapplied 8: 52

speciosa 8: 50, 52, 53‘Siskiyou’ 8: 52Twilight (‘Turner01’) 8: 52

‘Woodside White’ 8: 52

stricta 8: 52, 53‘Sulphurea’ 8: 50, 52, 53

versicolor 8: 50, 53Oke, Geoffrey 7: 106Old English Garden, Battersea Park 7: 10

old stems, pruning out 3: 54

Olympic Park plantings 1: 9by Anisa Gress 8: 14

onion downy mildew (Peronospora destructor) 1: 24, 24

onion:‘Red Baron’ 10: 45, 45‘Senshyu Yellow’ 10: 45‘White Lisbon’ 10: 46, 47

open-ground crops 3: 63Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’ 1: 67

orchard developments in Wales 3: 10

orchid:common spotted (see Dactylorhiza fuchsii)

heath spotted (see Dactylorhiza maculata)

night-flowering 2: 12, 12plantings around football stadium 11: 11

Origanum majorana 12: 44

overwintered tender plants 2: 26–27

Owen, Jennifer 4: 70owls:

boxes 7: 33tawny, by Andrew Halstead 7: 33, 33

reader response 9: 17, 17 (fledgling)

Oxalis:tuberosa 4: 12, 12

as a vegetable 3: 44, 45

Oxford University Botanic Garden 1: 58

oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus): growing at home 11: 27

PPachystegia insignis 8: 66Paeonia:

classification 5: 30herbaceous 5: 30tree 5: 30‘Bartzella’ 5: 79, 79‘Copper Kettle’ 5: 79, 79‘Cora Louise’ 5: 79, 79

‘Cutie’ 6: 10, 10delavayi var. delavayi f. lutea 5: 30

‘Garden Treasure’ 5: 78, 78

‘Hillary’ 5: 30Itoh hybrids 5: 30

by Alastair Gunn 5: 78–79

‘Julia Rose’ 5: 78, 78lactiflora:

‘Kakoden’ 5: 78‘Salmon Dream’ 7: 14, 14

x lemoinei 5: 78‘Alice Harding’ 5: 78

‘Morning Lilac’ 5: 78, 78peregrina ‘Otto Froebel’ 5: 30

‘Yellow Crown’ 5: 78‘Yellow Dream’ 5: 78‘Yellow Emperor’ 5: 78‘Yellow Heaven’ 5: 78

palm borer moth (Paysandisia archon) 12: 9

palm pests, new 12: 9palm weevil, red (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) 12: 9

pansies, winter, poorly performing 1: 26

Papaver:orientale:

root cuttings 11: 83, 83

‘Black and White’ 5: 138, 138

rhoeas 12: 46somniferum 7: 38

parent bugs (Elasmucha grisea), by Andrew Halstead 9: 31, 31

Parker, Colin and Marylen: their nursery at Warthill, York 6: 45–48, 45

Parker, John: award of Victoria Medal of Honour 7: 12, 12

parks:Diamond Jubilee plantings 2: 8

preserving, by Lia Leendertz 7: 21

Parrotia persica ‘Vanessa’ 11: 36, 37

parsley:effect of pouring boiling water into drills, by Matthew Biggs 3: 17

Hamburg 1: 24, 24parsnip wine 11: 87parterre with pastel plantings 8: 48, 48

Parthenocissus Red Wall (‘Troki’) 10: 10, 10

Partner Gardens, new RHS 1: 74

Paterson, Janette (4: 43), on: dividing plants 4: 43

patio vegetables, by Ian Hodgson 3: 62–67

Pattison, Chris (10: 62–63): his nursery in Pendock, Gloucs, by Roy Lancaster 10: 62–65

pea:‘Early Onward’ 10: 46, 47‘Hurst Greenshaft’ 10: 46

pea, sweet (see Lathyrus odoratus)

pear(s):harvesting 10: 22rust (Gymnosporangium sabinae) 5: 32, 32

survey 5: 32; 7: 79wine 11: 87‘Beurré Hardy’ 3: 28; 9: 106, 106

‘Conference’ 3: 28‘Doyenné du Comice’ 10: 44, 45

‘Winter Nelis’ 10: 44Pearman, David, on: gardening and alien invasives (e Garden, Dec 2011, p19): reader response 2: 17response from Niall Moore, Fera 3: 16

peat:alternatives 1: 69, 70

trials at RHS Garden Wisley 1: 70–71

effects of replacing on industry 1: 71

extraction 1: 68Government view 1: 70replacing in horticulture, by Paul Alexander 1: 68–71

reader response 4: 17sourcing 1: 70sowing without, by Nick Morgan 2: 43–46

Pelargonium:lemon-scented leaves 12: 52

mint and rose scents 12: 51–52

origins 12: 51overwintered 2: 26repotting 12:scented-leaved:

by Diana M Miller 12: 50–53

commercial applications 12: 52

in containers 12: 53, 53

overwintering 8: 28; 12: 52

‘Ardwick Cinnamon’ 12: 50, 51, 52, 52

‘Attar of Roses’ 12: 50, 51‘Body’s Peppermint’ 12: 51

‘Brunswick’ 12: 50, 52capitatum 12: 51‘Charity’ 12: 50, 52‘Charmay Snow Flurry’ 12: 50, 51

‘Chocolate Peppermint’ 12: 50, 52

‘Citronella’ 12: 50‘Clorinda’ 12: 50, 52crispum 12: 51, 52

‘Major’ 12: 50, 52‘Minor’ 12: 52

endlicherianum 2: 70, 70

correction 4: 17Happy Face Magenta (‘Pachafmag’) 11: 12, 12

‘Joy Lucille’ 12: 50, 52‘Lady Plymouth’ 12: 50, 52

odoratissimum 12: 52quercifolium 12: 50, 52radens 12: 50, 52‘Rose’ 12: 50‘Royal Oak’ 12: 52tomentosum 12: 52

NATIONAL PLANT COLLECTIONS apples: replanting at Brogdale Farm, Kent 3: 12

Argyranthemum 7: 42Aronia 12: 9auriculas 3: 48Buddleja 9: 56–60Clethra 12: 9Crassula 7: 11Gongora 7: 11Gunnera 9: 47, 48Hamamelis 1: 50–53

Lantana 9: 40Lophomyrtus 10: 9Luma 10: 9Muscari 3: 60Myrtus 10: 9Oenothera 8: 52Prunus (ornamental) 7: 11

Rosa pre-1900 Gallica roses 10: 9

Taxodium 12: 9Ugni 10: 9

NURSERIES by Roy Lancaster

Breezy Knees Nursery and Gardens, Warthill, York 6: 45–48

Foxgrove Plants, Newbury, Berks 2: 74–77

Harveys Garden Plants, Bury St Edmunds, Su�olk 4: 65–68

Lower Kenneggy Nurseries, Penzance, Cornwall 8: 64–67

Pattison, Chris: his nursery in Pendock, Gloucs 10: 62–65, 62–63

OBITUARIES Cabot, Frank 2: 12, 12Grierson, Mary 4: 12, 12

Hancock, Arthur James 5: 16, 16

Kemp, Eddie E 9: 10, 10

Ridley, Rt Hon The Viscount 5: 14, 14

Woodland, Dennis 9: 10, 10


Pennisetum – Pottage

Pennisetum macrourum 10: 50

peony (see Paeonia)pepper, Sichuan (see Zanthoxylum simulans)

peppers for smaller spaces under glass 3: 65

perennials:for shade 4: 67herbaceous: dividing 4: 42

plantings in Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith’s Hertfordshire garden 3: 32–38

vegetables 10: 26by Lia Leendertz 4: 19

Perfect for Pollinators list (see RHS)

perlite as a growing medium 2: 46with coir 2: 46with green waste 2: 46with wood fibre 2: 46

Person, Daniel 1: 40petals, sepals and tepals, by Mike Grant 3: 15

Peters, Louise (2: 76): her nursery at Foxgrove Plants, Newbury, Berks 2: 74–77

Petroselinum crispum var. tuberosum (see parsley, Hamburg)

Petunia:Conchita Blueberry Frost (‘Conblue’) (Conchita Series) 5: 35

Supertunia Pretty Much Picasso (‘Bhtun31501’) 4: 58

Phacelia tanacetifolia

12: 46Philadelphus:

maculatus 10: 65, 65‘Mexican Jewel’ 10: 65

purpurascens 10: 65, 65‘Sybille’ 6: 114, 114

Phlox:maculata ‘Omega’ 9: 55paniculata root cuttings 11: 83, 83

Photographer of the Year 2012, RHS: winners 12: 68

Phragmipedium:kovachii 1: 10, 10

‘Trinity’ 1: 10Phyllostachys:

growth 11: 66aurea ‘Holochrysa’ 11: 67, 69

nigra 11: 66, 67, 69Physalis:

as crop plants, by John and Shirley Murrell 11: 70–71

alkekengi var. franchetii 11: 70, 70

ixocarpa 11: 70, 71, 71‘Purple’ 11: 71‘Toma Verde’ 11: 71

peruviana 11: 70, 71, 71‘Goldenberry’ 11: 71‘Little Lanterns’ 11: 71‘Pineapple’ 11: 71

philadelphica 11: 71‘Purple de Milpa’ 11: 71

pruinosa 11: 71pubescens 11: 71

‘Aunt Molly’s’ 11: 71‘Goldie’ 11: 71

Physoplexis comosa 2: 70, 70

Phytophthora:on Lawson’s cypress 1: 8on viburnum 1: 8hedraiandra 1: 8infestans 7: 31, 31lateralis 1: 8; 2: 9

symptoms 1: 8Pinus nigra subsp. nigra ‘Helga’ 7: 53

‘Planning for a Healthy Environment’: guidance on green space decisions 9: 8

Plant Heritage 2: 73 (see also National Plant Collections)

plant hunters:most prolific 5: 19RHS/Garden Museum exhibition, by Lucy Waitt 9: 44–45

plant names 5: 21; 9: 21PlantBank, Australian Botanic Garden, Sydney 4: 11

planting for a long season 5: 42

plants and soils, by Steve Head 7: 66–69

Plants for Bugs project, RHS 12: 44by Helen Bostock 3: 70–72

PlantTracker app (for invasive species) 11: 33

Pleioblastus:growth 11: 66pygmaeus 11: 69variegatus 11: 67, 68, 69viridistriatus 11: 67, 69,

69Pliny the Elder 12: 62plug plants, growing on 4: 28

plums 8: 69–71collection at Wisley 8: 70

fan-trained 8: 70wine 11: 87‘Apricot Gage’ 2: 72

pollen:gardens as sources of 9: 70

plants 9: 22pollinators (see also Perfect for Pollinators, RHS panel)adaptation in Aquilegia 2: 9

correction 4: 10meadow plantings for 12: 46

relative importance of different kinds 10: 29

Polygonatum:by Roger Harvey 6: 61–64

reader response 8: 18cultivation 6: 64relatives 6: 64species from Vietnam 6: 62–64, 63

curvistylum 6: 62, 63filipes 6: 62, 63hirtum 6: 62, 63hookeri 6: 64, 64x hybridum 6: 61, 62, 63

‘Betberg’ 4: 66; 6: 62, 62, 63

‘Striatum’ 6: 61–62, 61, 63

kansuense 6: 63, 64

kingianum 8: 18, 18odoratum 6: 62

‘Flore Pleno’ 6: 62, 63var. pluriflorum ‘Variegatum’ 6: 62

‘Red Stem’ 4: 66, 67, 67; 6: 62, 62, 63

‘Silver Wings’ 6: 62, 63

pubescens 6: 62, 63sibericum 6: 61zanlanscianense 6: 63, 64

pome: definition 9: 25ponds for wildlife 6: 70; 8: 72–76

poppy (see Papaver)postgraduate studies: RHS support 1: 13

Postill, Alan 1: 37and Daphne bholua

‘Jacqueline Postill’, by Roy Lancaster 1: 36–37

plants raised by 1: 37Postill, Jacqueline 1: 37potassium, ash as a source of, by Matthew Biggs 10: 17

potato(es):late blight 7: 31, 31famine, Irish 2: 73for smaller outdoor spaces 3: 65

minituber: how to propagate 4: 26–27

‘Lumper’ 2: 73pots (see Container-gardening panel)

Pottage, Matthew (3: 53), on:cutting back large shrubs 3: 53

PLANT PROFILES see also Succeed With... panel

Argyranthemum, by Roy Cheek 7: 42–45

bamboos for smaller gardens, by Jon Ardle 11: 64–69

bearded irises, by Anne Blanco White 5: 54–59

Buddleja in the National Plant Collection, The Lavender Garden, Gloucs, by Chris Sanders 9: 56–60

Cordyline indivisa, by Phil Clayton (The Garden, Nov 2011, pp36–37): letter on 2: 16

Cotoneaster, by David Jewell 10: 66–69

early magnolias, by Jim Gardiner 4: 34–39

Galanthus at Colesbourne Park, Gloucs, by Stephen Anderton 2: 52–56

Geranium phaeum, by James Armitage 5: 47–50, 50

Gerbera (hardy), by Graham Clarke 3: 68–69

Gunnera, by James Armitage 9: 47–49

Hamamelis at Swallow Hayes, W Midlands, by Val Bourne 1: 50–53

Helenium, by Martin

Hughes-Jones 8: 36–40

Helleborus as evergreen foliage plants, by Graham Rice 2: 60–63

Hepatica, by John Grimshaw 2: 36–39

Hosta, by Jon Ardle 7: 72–75

Iris (bulbous), by Alan Street 1: 30–34

Lantana, by Martin Einchcomb 9: 40–43

Mahonia, by Roy Lancaster 12: 34–38

Muscari, by Richard Hobbs 3: 57–60

Oenothera, by Graham Rice 8: 50–53

Paeonia Itoh hybrids, by Alastair Gunn 5: 78–79

Pelargonium (scented-leaved), by Diana M Miller 12: 50–53

Polygonatum, by Roger Harvey 6: 61–64reader response 8: 18

Rosa (climbing), by Charles Quest-Ritson 6: 38–43

Sedum for borders, by Christopher Whitehouse 10: 32–35

Viscum, by Jonathan Briggs 12: 61–64

PLANTSMEN AND WOMEN Bloom, Alan, and Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, by Roy Lancaster 9: 54–55

Bowles, EA 1: 33; 2: 55; 2: 76

Komarov, Vladimir and Syringa komarowii, by Roy Lancaster 5: 64–65

plant-hunters: an RHS/Garden Museum exhibition, by Lucy Waitt 9: 44–45

Postill, Alan, and Daphne bholua

‘Jacqueline Postill’, by Roy Lancaster 1: 36–37

Sargent, Charles, and Prunus sargentii, by Roy Lancaster 3: 40–41, 41

Simon, Hans, and Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokovo’, by Roy Lancaster 7: 52–53, 53

Wallich, Nathaniel, and Dryopteris wallichiana, by Roy Lancaster 11: 84–85, 85

PESTS, DISEASES AND DISORDERSants 6: 27aphids:

black bean 3: 26, 26fruit 3: 28, 28

apples:curled leaves 6: 22–23scab (Venturia inaequalis) 10: 25, 25

ash dieback (Chalara fraxinea) 12: 8

beetle:Asian longhorn (Anoplophora glabripennis) 6: 9, 9

update 8: 10lily (Lilioceris lilii) 5: 28, 28

bitter pit 10: 25, 25blight, late (Phytophthora infestans) 7: 31, 31

blossom end rot 7: 24, 24blossom wilt 4: 27, 27broad beans 3: 26cabbage root fly 5: 31Camellia 2: 22chafer grubs 8: 24, 24conifers, hedge dieback in 9: 25

Cotoneaster 10: 68cushion scale 3: 28, 28

on evergreens 12: 27, 27

cypress aphid (Cinara cupressivora) 9: 25, 25

damsons 8: 70bacterial canker 8:

26–27early spring pests 3: 28earwigs 7: 26, 26evergreens: deposits on leaves 12: 27

forking and splitting in root crops 8: 28, 28

fruit fly, spotted wing (Drosophila suzukii) 12: 29, 29

Gardenia 12: 41glasshouse pests 7: 40–41mealybugs 11: 31reducing through housekeeping 7: 40–41

grapevine gall mite (Colomerus vitis) 11: 27, 27

hedge dieback in conifers 9: 25

hellebore black death 2: 25, 25

hellebore leaf spot (Coniothyrium hellebori) 2: 25, 25

Heuchera rust (Puccinia heucherae) 6: 23, 23

horse chestnut:leaf blotch 7: 28, 28leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella): 7: 28

control 1: 16–17; 2: 9its origins 12: 29

impatiens downy mildew (Plasmopara

obducens) 3: 8; 5: 35by Liz Beal 5: 44–45

leatherjackets: nematode control 8: 24, 24

lily beetle (Lilioceris lilii) 5: 28, 28

magnesium deficiency 6: 24, 24

mite, red spider (Tetranychus urticae) 7: 41, 41

moths:gypsy (Lymantria dispar) 10: 16, 16

oak processionary 9: 9pea (Cydia nigricana) 8: 27, 27

onion downy mildew (Peronospora destructor) 1: 24, 24

palm:borer moth (Paysandisia archon) 12: 9

weevil, red (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) 12: 9

pear rust (Gymnosporangium sabinae) 5: 32, 32; 7: 79

powdery mildew 9: 29, 29sulphur-free treatments 12: 24

radish problems 5: 31rhubarb leaves as a preventive of brassica

clubroot, by Matthew Biggs 12: 15

scorch 7: 27, 27slugs:

alien 10: 8controlling 3: 22co�ee grounds as a repellent 7: 19


nematode control 8: 24on Hosta 7: 28, 74–75

snails:by Penelope Bennett 5: 27


controlling 3: 22; 10: 16 (letter)

on Hosta 7: 28, 74–75soil-pest biocontrols 8: 24

Solomon’s seal sawfly 6: 64

sooty mould on evergreens 12: 27, 27

sulphur-free treatments for disease 12: 24

tomato problems 7: 24vine weevil: nematode control 8: 24, 24

Viola:leaf spots 1: 26, 26downy mildew (Peronospora violae) 1: 26


powdery mildew – Rosa

understanding frost 12: 48–49

powdery mildew 9: 29, 29sulphur-free treatments 12: 24

predators in gardens 5: 70Primula:

auriculas:auricula theatres 3: 49

by Phil Clayton 3: 48–49

cultivation 3: 48–49displaying 3: 49National Plant Collection 3: 48

recommended 3: 49types 3: 49, 49

auricula:‘Ancient Society’ 3: 49

‘Joel’ 3: 49‘Piglet’ 3: 48‘Pot o’ Gold’ 3: 48‘Prague’ 3: 49‘Queen Bee’, painted by Brigitte Daniel 3: 78

pruning:bamboo 5: 32before and after flowering 3: 53

birches 10: 25Buddleja 9: 59–60Camellia 2: 22damsons 8: 26–27evergreens 3: 54excessive, by Nigel Colborn 5: 25

groundcover roses 9: 29Hamamelis 1: 22magnolias 4: 28Mahonia 12: 23old stems 3: 54outdoor grapevines 11: 26–27

regenerative 3: 53roots 12: 20

shrubs, by Holly Farrell 3: 52–54

timing 3: 53Prunus:

extra-floral nectaries 11: 18, 18

ornamental: new National Plant Collection 7: 11

domestica (see plum)incisa ‘Kojo-no-mai’ 11: 39

insititia (see bullace, damson)

sargentii and Charles Sargent, by Roy Lancaster 3: 40–41, 40, 41

verecunda 11: 37, 39Pseudotsuga menziesii 9: 44

publication of new plant species online 5: 14

Pulmonaria:rediscovered cultivar 6: 9

‘Red Freckles’ 6: 9, 9rubra 1: 66

Pyracantha ‘Teton’ 10: 98, 98

QQR codes on Wisley signage (letter on) 7: 18

Queen Elizabeth: changes in gardening during her reign, by Tim Richardson 5: 89–92, 89, 90, 92

Queen’s Birthday Honours List: awards to horticulture 8: 10; 10: 9

Quercus dentata:‘Carl Ferris Miller’ 10: 62, 63

‘Pinnatifida’ 10: 63Quest-Ritson, Charles, on:

climbing roses 6: 38–43reader response 8: 18–19

quince:when to harvest 10: 22‘Sibley’s Patio’ 2: 10, 10

quinoa (see Chenopodium quinoa)

Rrabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), by Andrew Halstead 10: 31, 31

radish:as a ‘catch crop’ 5: 84cultivation 5: 86problems 5: 31RHS trial 5: 86selection 5: 86summer, by Rebecca Bevan and Mario De Pace 5: 84–86

‘Albena’ 5: 85‘Amethyst’ 5: 85, 86, 86‘Candela di Fuoco’ 5: 85, 86

‘Cherry Belle’ 5: 85, 86‘Flamboyant Sabina’ 5: 86

‘French Breakfast 2’ 5: 85

‘French Breakfast 3’ 5: 85, 86

‘Hild’s Roter Neckarrhum’ 5: 86

‘Mirabeau’ 5: 86‘Ping Pong’ 5: 85, 86‘Pink Beauty’ 5: 86‘Poloneza’ 5: 85‘Rougette’ 5: 85, 86‘Rudi’ 5: 85, 86‘Sangria’ 5: 86‘Saxa 2’ 5: 85, 86‘Sparkler’ 10: 46‘Vienna’ 5: 85‘Zlata’ 5: 85

raised beds:digging versus topdressing 1: 26

vegetable crops 3: 66Ram, Shadi and Nirmal 9: 53, 53

Randel, Colin 5: 138Ranunculus reflective properties: research into 3: 12

Raphanus sativus (see radish)

raspberry, Nepalese (see Rubus nepalensis)

Raworth, Jenny and Richard: their garden in Twickenham, by Nigel Colborn 6: 30–34

Red List: update on endangered wild conifers 2: 10

red spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) 7: 41, 41

Reeves, John 9: 44Reford, Elsie 12: 19Regan, Gillian and Peter (5: 40): their naturalistic garden at Frith Old Farmhouse, near Faversham, Kent 5: 38–42

regenerative pruning 3: 53Reginald Cory Memorial Cup 7: 12

Restio:subverticillatus 9: 66, 67

tetraphyllus 9: 66, 67Restionaceae 9: 66–67restios:

by Phil Clayton 9: 66–67cultivation 9: 67in pots 9: 67overwintering 9: 67

Rhamnus imeretina 10: 63

Rheum (see also rhubarb):roots painted by Norma Gregory 3: 78

palmatum 3: 46Rhodocoma capensis 9: 67, 67

Rhododendron:as an alien invasive 3: 16UK invasive hybrids 2: 9macabeanum 8: 11, 11Metallica (‘Hachman’s Metallica’) 10: 10, 10

sargentianum 3: 41x superponticum 2: 9

Rhodophiala bifida 2: 59RHS Encyclopedia of Conifers: a Comprehensive Guide to Cultivars and Species, by Aris Auders and Derek Spicer 10: 77

RHS Flower Show Tatton Park (see RHS Shows panel)

RHS Latin for Gardeners 11: 93

RHS Perfect for Pollinators campaign (see RHS panel)

rhubarb:as a perennial crop 10: 26

cultivation 8: 26forcing 8: 26leaves as a preventive of brassica clubroot, by Matthew Biggs 12: 15

wine 11: 87‘Timperley Early’ 3: 114, 114

Rhus:x pulvinata (Autumn Lace Group) ‘Red Autumn Lace’ 11: 36

typhina 11: 36, 37Tiger Eyes (‘Bailtiger’) 11: 36

Ribes:laurifolium 1: 67odoratum ‘Crandall’ 3: 45

sanguineum 3: 72, 72; 5: 21; 9: 44

Rice, Graham, on:evergreen hellebores as foliage plants 2: 60–63

Oenothera 8: 50–53Richardson, Tim, on:

benefits of community

gardening 7: 47–50changes in gardening during Queen Elizabeth’s reign 5: 89–92

Ridley, Rt Hon ¬e Viscount (obituary) 5: 14, 14

Rigler, Russell (10: 39), on: establishing roses at Wisley 10: 39

Roberts, Lesley (3: 49), on: auricula classification 3: 49

Roberts, Teresinha (9: 51): her unusual edible and dye crops 9: 51

robin 1: 27, 27Rollinson, Timothy: award of CBE 8: 10

Romneya coulteri root cuttings 11: 83, 83

‘rooms’, use of at Veddw House Garden, Devauden, Monmouth-shire 12: 54–59

root crops: forking and splitting 8: 28, 28

rooting powders, hormone 8: 29

roots:cuttings, by Guy Barter 11: 81–83

good species for 11: 83

pruning and root teasing 12: 20

Rosa:autumn planting 10: 38André Eve’s rose garden in Pithiviers, France 6: 50–53

climbing:by Charles Quest-Ritson 6: 38–43

reader response 8: 18–19

combinations 6: 42–43

pruning 6: 27, 43establishing at RHS Garden Wisley 10: 39

for hips 11: 40pergolas 6: 42planting combinations 6: 52–53

pre-1900 Gallica roses: National Plant Collection 10: 9

pruning groundcover roses 9: 29

rosehip wine 11: 87trained on walls and fences 6: 42

‘Albert Poyet’ 6: 52‘Alchymist’ 6: 39, 41, 43‘Alister Stella Gray’ 6: 38, 40, 41

‘Aloha’ 6: 38, 42‘American Pillar’ 6: 27banksiae ‘Lutea’ 5: 138, 138

Boscobel (‘Auscousin’) 7: 14, 14

‘Buff Beauty’ 6: 42Carla Fineschi (‘Evepro’) 6: 52

‘Climbing Blue Moon’ 6: 38, 40

‘Climbing Ena Harkness’ 6: 42

‘Climbing Iceberg’ 6: 39, 40, 41, 42

PRACTICAL ADVICE see also Fruit, Garden Practice, Pests & Diseases and Vegetables panels

alpines: cultivation outdoors 2: 71

ants 6: 27apomicts 10: 26autumn:

bulbs 7: 31pond care 9: 29

bamboo:cultivation 5: 32in pots 11: 28

bat boxes 2: 27, 27beds, raised: digging versus topdressing 1: 26

bee hotels 12: 24, 24berries, hybrid: training 6: 22–23

birds: feeding in winter 1: 27

borders: management through the year 1: 24–25

bulbs, summer-flowering 2: 26

busy lizzie alternatives 5: 35, 45

Camassia naturalising 2: 24

Camellia cultivation 2: 22‘catch crops’ 5: 30–31

clay pots: winter care 12: 22

compost bins, wildlife in 9: 26

Dahlia propagation 4: 26Daphne cultivation 12: 22–23

deadheading 7: 26–27dividing plants, by David Hide 4: 41–43

evergreen broad-leaved hedges 10: 24–25

fertilisers, organic and synthetic 8: 26–27

frost damage to foliage, preventing 3: 24

gherkins, outdoor 5: 31grey water, use of 6: 15Hamamelis pruning for compactness 1: 22

hardening o�, by Matthew Biggs 5: 61–63

hormone rooting powders 8: 29

houseplant care in winter 12: 27

Humulus lupulus: hops for home-brewing 11: 28

Hyacinthoides bluebell

identification 4: 31ladybirds, common British 6: 24

Lantana camara overwintering 9: 24, 24

Lathyrus odoratus sowing 3: 24–25

lawns: keeping them green 11: 24

leafmould, making 10: 29lemon grass 9: 25, 25Magnolia pruning 4: 28Mahonia pruning 12: 23manure contaminated with weedkiller: update 2: 24–25

mosses 2: 24; 11: 24nectar and pollen plants 9: 22

pansies, winter, poorly performing 1: 26

Pelargonium overwintering scented-leaf 8: 28

peony groups explained 5: 30

plug plants, growing on 4: 28

pond care in autumn 9: 29

pot-bound plants 12: 20root pruning and root teasing 12: 20

roses, pruning:climbing and rambling 6: 27

groundcover 9: 29seeds, choosing 12: 27spring preparations in summer 8: 29

summer bulbs and tubers, planting 3: 24–25

sweet peas: performance 6: 20

tender plants, overwintered 2: 26–27

trees:not to prune 10: 29stumps, removing 11: 31

types of fruit 9: 24–25weeds, woody: controlling 11: 31

winter container displays 12: 22–23

worms for compost heaps: management 3: 25


Rosa (continued) – Sedum

Rosa (continued)‘Climbing Lady Hillingdon’ 6: 38, 40, 42

‘Climbing Souvenir de la Malmaison’ 6: 38, 40, 43

‘Compassion’ 6: 39, 40, 42

‘Coral Dawn’ 6: 38, 42Dublin Bay (‘Macdub’) 6: 42, 42

‘Felicia’ 6: 42‘Gloire de Dijon’ 6: 42Glyndebourne (‘Harpulse’) 10: 10, 10

‘Guinée’ 6: 42, 42‘Kathleen Harrop’ 6: 38, 40

‘Leverkusen’ 6: 38, 42‘Madame Alfred Carrière’ 6: 40

‘Madame Grégoire Staechelin’ 6: 39, 41, 42, 43

‘Maigold’ 2: 32Miss Lorraine (‘Evelora’) 6: 52

nitida 11: 40

Open Arms (‘Chewpixcel’) 8: 18

‘Parade’ 6: 38, 42‘Reine Victoria’ 7: 61Rose des Blés (‘Evebeau’) 6: 52

Roville (‘Evero’) 6: 52rugosa 11: 40

hip 11: 40‘Alba’ 11: 40

‘Sealing Wax’: historic specimen 5: 13

‘Sombreuil’ 6: 42‘Sophie’ 6: 52Sylvie Vartan (‘Evesylvia’) 6: 52

virginiana 11: 40‘Zéphirine Drouhin’ 6: 40, 40, 42

Roscoe, William 1: 58rose (see also Rosa):

Christmas (see Helleborus niger)

Lenten (see Helleborus x hybridus)

Rosen, Pippa (10: 58): her collection of climbing French beans at ¬e Herbary, by Daniela Jankowska 10: 58–60

Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Sissinghurst Blue’ 6: 114, 114

Rowe, Jeff (9: 67), on: restios 9: 67

Royal autographs 5: 91, 91Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh: its new alpine house 10: 9

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1: 58correction (e Garden, November 2011, p11) 2: 9

Rubus:nepalensis 3: 46phoenicolasius 3: 46

Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii 6: 46; 8: 14, 14

rules, horticultural: breaking, by Mary Keen 2: 21

Russell, Louis R 2: 12; 3: 12, 12 (obituary)

Ssalads:

baby leaf 2: 27for autumn sowing 9: 26for smaller outdoor spaces 3: 64

seed mixes: EU ruling 5: 12

Sales, John, on:designs for the Winter Walk at Anglesey Abbey, Cambs (letter) 3: 16

Pamela Schwerdt and Sibylle Kreutzberger: the importance of gardening partnerships 7: 23

Salisbury, Andrew, on:gardeners and wildlife gardening 9: 68–71

learning from nature 6: 69–72

Salix:alba var. vitellina 1: 67udensis ‘Sekka’ 8: 17

Salvia:‘African Sky’ 10: 10, 10x jamensis ‘Javier’ 1: 10, 10

napifolia 6: 45, 47–48nemorosa ‘Schwellenburg’ 7: 53

Sambucus nigra: elderberry and elderflower wine 11: 87

Sanders, Chris, on: summer-flowering Buddleja in the National Plant Collection, ¬e Lavender Garden, Gloucs 9: 56–60

sandy grit: its use at RHS Garden Hyde Hall 1: 48–49

Sarcococca:confusa 10: 64hookeriana var. digyna ‘Purple Stem’ 10: 64

orientalis 10: 64ruscifolia var. chinensis ‘Dragon Gate’ 10: 64

wallichii 10: 64, 64Sargent, Charles:

and Prunus sargentii, by Roy Lancaster 3: 40–41, 41

plants named for 3: 41

Sasa:invasiveness 11: 66palmata 11: 69veitchii 11: 69, 69

Sasaella:invasiveness 11: 66ramosa 11: 69

Saxifraga:callosa 4: 122 (captioned ‘Tumbling Waters’ in error)

‘Karel Čapek’ 2: 71‘Tumbling Waters’ 4: 122; 6: 15 (correction)

scale insects (Coccus hesperidum) 7: 41, 41

scented-leaved pelargoniums, by Diana M Miller 12: 50–53

Schefflera taiwaniana 8: 67

Schisandra chinensis 3: 46

school leavers: attracting to horticulture 4: 23

schools and gardening, by Lia Leendertz 9: 21

Schwerdt, Pamela, and Sibylle Kreutzberger:their gardening partnership, by John Sales 7: 23

their garden in the Cotswolds 7: 34–38

science: its importance for gardeners, by Mary Keen 3: 19 (see also RHS Science panel)

scientific names of plants, by Mike Grant 5: 21

Scilla mischtschenkoana 2: 106, 106

scorch 7: 27, 27watering in direct sun as a cause of, by Matthew Biggs 8: 19

Scoular, Aileen (11: 50): her town garden in London E4, by Martyn Cox 11: 48–51

sea kale:as a perennial crop 10: 26

root cuttings 11: 83, 83Sedum:

as a butterfly attractor (letter on) 12: 14, 14–15

cultivation 10: 33dark-leaved 10: 32–34for borders, by Christopher Whitehouse 10: 32–35

RHSsee also RHS Gardens, RHS Science, RHS Shows and RHS Trials panels

Annual General Meeting 8: 83

Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2011/12: summary, by Elizabeth Banks 6: 80–81

Autumn Planting for Year Round Colour campaign 10: 8

Big Wildlife Garden competition winners 8: 81

Botany Department, RHS: its work and purpose 2: 84

Britain in Bloom 2012 2: 10; 3: 85; 6: 80winners 11: 92–93

Britain in Bloom: Transforming Local Communities: RHS report 7: 49, 50

Bursaries Newsletter 9: 76

courses 4: 222013 12: 69

elections to Council 2013 12: 69

first RHS garden, Chiswick 1: 60

honours and awards, RHS 7: 12

Get Your Grown-Ups Growing campaign 10: 73winner 2011 7: 83

green-skills gap: RHS steering group 9: 10

It’s Your Neighbourhood scheme 2: 10; 11: 53

Key Investment Projects 7: 83

Lawrence Hall and Conference Centre 7: 83

Lindley Library:

domestic gardens image database 2: 12

reopening 6: 76‘Moving Up, Growing On’ (report on special educational needs and gardening) 4: 12

National Gardens Scheme Elspeth Thompson bursary 12: 9

Occasional Papers from the RHS Lindley Library 11: 94

Partner Gardens, new RHS 1: 74

peat replacement: the RHS view 1: 71

Perfect for Pollinators campaign 3: 72; 7: 67; 8: 12

Photographer of the Year 2012: winners 12: 68

plant-hunters: an RHS/

Garden Museum exhibition 9: 44–45

Queen Elizabeth: changes in gardening during her reign, by Tim Richardson 5: 89–92, 89, 90, 92

RHS and Garden Club of America Interchange Fellowship 10: 74

Seed Scheme 11: 92support for postgraduate studies 1: 13

Sustainable Growing Media Task Force 11: 10

trainees’ graduation ceremony, 2012 10: 77

Windlesham Trophy 6: 80Young School Gardener of the Year 9: 74, 74

RHS GARDENSRHS Garden Harlow Carr:

alpine house: its unusual plants, by Kaye Gri�iths 2: 69–71

Kitchen Garden glasshouse 9: 76, 76

Main Border 9: 73with Helenium 8: 38

plans for 2012, by Elizabeth Balmforth (Curator) 1: 80

rhubarb collection 3: 87

RHS Garden Hyde Hall:

Camassia as path edging 2: 24–25

Courtyard Gardens 8: 82

Dry Garden 1: 81plans for 2012, by Ian Le Gros (Curator) 1: 81

use of sandy grit 1: 48–49

Visitors’ Lounge 6: 78wildlife pond 8: 74, 74

RHS Garden Rosemoor:

new Iris collection 9: 8plans for 2012, by Jonathan Webster (Curator) 1: 80

Winter Garden 1: 80

RHS Garden Wisley:Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden 1: 81; 10: 39

digital information point 2: 83

establishing new roses 10: 39

grape-growing for wine 11: 88

Helenium plantings 8: 40, 40

Mixed Borders 4: 43Pippin Lodge shelter 6: 77, 77

plans for 2012, by Colin Crosbie (Curator) 1: 81

plum collection 8: 70shallots at Wisley 1: 56

RHS SCIENCEBotany Department, RHS: its work and purpose 2: 84

current research 3: 19Field Research Facility, Wisley 6: 8

flowering lawns: RHS research 2: 81, 81; 12: 9

green roofs: RHS research into using broad-leaved plants for 12: 8

impatiens downy mildew, by Liz Beal 5: 44–45

importance of horticultural science for gardeners, by Mary Keen 3: 19

peat:alternatives: by Paul Alexander 1: 68–71


trials at RHS Garden Wisley 1: 70–71

Plants for Bugs project 12: 44by Helen Bostock 3: 70–72

research into watering regimes 6: 59

root pruning and root teasing 12: 20

RHS PLANT TRIALS Argyranthemum, by Roy Cheek 7: 42–45

beans, broad, by Sue Stickland 3: 74–75

border sedums 10: 34Buddleja 9: 58–59celeriac at West Dean Gardens, W Sussex, by Sarah Wain 9: 38–39

hardiness ratings, new RHS 8: 11

invitation to participate in RHS trials 12: 9

Lobelia, by Julie Hollobone 2: 48–51

People’s Choice results 12: 70

radishes 5: 86

RHS SHOWSCamellia at London shows, by Nigel Colborn 2: 64–66

Cardi� 6: 10dandelion exhibit 7: 11

Chelsea Flower Show 2012:Broadleigh Gardens: its four decades of shows at Chelsea, by Nigel Colborn 4: 52–54

Fringe Festival 6: 9new plants 7: 14Plant of the Year 2012 7: 10

review 7: 61–64

Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2012:new and interesting plants 8: 12

review 8: 42–45judging at RHS Shows 2: 64–66

Tatton Park 2012:new and interesting plants 9: 12, 12

review 9: 62–65


Sedum – tomatillo

paler cultivars 10: 34RHS trial 10: 34‘Abbey Dore’ 10: 34, 34, 35

aizoon ‘Euphorbioides’ 6: 47, 47

‘Autumn Charm’ (see Herbstfreude Group ‘Lajos’)

‘Autumn Cheer’ (see Herbstfreude Group ‘Beka’)

‘Bertram Anderson’ 10: 34

cauticola 10: 34‘Lidakense’ 10: 34

‘Cloud Walker’ 10: 32, 35‘Coral Blush’ 10: 34‘Crazy Ruffles’ 10: 34, 35‘Diamond Edge’ 10: 34erythrostictum:

‘Frosty Morn’ 10: 32‘Mediovariegatum’ 10: 32

Herbstfreude Group:‘Beka’ 10: 32‘Elsie’s Gold’ 10: 32‘Herbstfreude’ 10: 34‘Jaws’ 10: 32, 32–33‘Lajos’ 10: 32

hybridum ‘Czar’s Gold’ 6: 47, 47

‘José Aubergine’ 10: 32, 35

‘Joyce Henderson’ 10: 34‘Marchants Best Red’ 10: 34

‘Matrona’ 10: 34‘Mr Goodbud’ 10: 32, 35‘Munstead Red’ 10: 34‘Red Cauli’ 10: 32–33, 34, 35

‘Ruby Glow’ 10: 34spectabile 10: 32

‘Pink Chablis’ 10: 32spurium ‘Voodoo’ 6: 47, 47

‘Stewed Rhubarb Mountain’ 10: 34, 35

‘Sunset Cloud’ 10: 34telephium:

Atropurpureum Group:

‘Karfunkelstein’ 10: 34

‘Leonore Zuuntz’ 10: 34, 35

‘Postman’s Pride’ 10: 32, 35

‘Purple Emperor’ 10: 32, 34, 35

‘Xenox’ 10: 34subsp. maximum ‘Gooseberry Fool’ 10: 34, 35

subsp. ruprechtii ‘Hab Gray’ 10: 34

‘Strawberries and Cream’ 10: 34, 35

‘Vera Jameson’ 10: 34seed bank, Australian 4: 11Seed Savers Exchange 2: 73

Seed Scheme, RHS 11: 92seeds:

choosing 12: 27wildflower mixes 10: 12

Selenicereus megalanthus seed pod, painted by Sam Cook 3: 79

self-seeding plants, by Dawn Isaac 3: 21reader response 5: 23

sensitive plant (see Mimosa pudica)

sensory plantings in Sue Grant’s Cotswold garden 11: 56–58

sepals: definition 3: 15shade: alternatives to busy lizzies 5: 35

shallots:at RHS Garden Wisley 1: 56

by Ian Hodgson 1: 54–56reader response 3: 16

from seed 1: 56‘Golden Gourmet’ 1: 55, 56

‘Hâtive de Niort’ 1: 56‘Jermor’ 1: 54‘Mikor’ 1: 54, 56‘Pesandor’ 1: 55‘Picasso’ 1: 54‘Red Gourmet’ 1: 54‘Red Sun’ 1: 54, 56

Shand, Christina, and David Allum (10: 54): their Pembrokeshire garden 10: 54–57

shark fin melon 9: 52Sheffield Botanical Gardens 1: 59, 60, 61

Sherwood, Shirley 3: 78award of OBE 2: 8

Shibataea kumasaca 11: 66, 69

shrubs:autumn colour combinations 11: 34–40

autumn planting 10: 38pruning, by Holly Farrell 3: 52–54

Sideritis syriaca 6: 48Silene stenophylla 5: 13, 13

Simon, Hans (7: 53), and Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokovo’, by Roy Lancaster 7: 52–53

Simons, Andrew, on: how camellia show blooms are judged 2: 65

siskin 8: 75Skelmersdale, Christine 3: 114; 4: 52–54, 52, 53, 54

Slade, Naomi, on: Annie Godfrey’s Hertford garden 8: 30–33

Slater, Nigel (10: 44), on:culinary seasonal complements 10: 44–47

edible flowers 6: 19slowworm 9: 70slugs:

alien 10: 8controlling 3: 22

on Hosta 7: 28, 74–75in compost 9: 26, 26nematode control 8: 24Spanish (Arion vulgaris) 10: 8, 8

use of coffee grounds as a repellent, by Matthew Biggs 7: 19

reader response 9: 17smaller spaces (see panel)Smallanthus sonchifolius edible roots 3: 44–45, 45

Smith, Lionel:his research into flowering lawns 12: 9

award 2: 81, 81snails:

by Penelope Bennett 5: 27

reader response 7: 18controlling 3: 22

letter on 10: 16on Hosta 7: 28, 74–75

snake survey 3: 31Sneesby, Richard, on: the London Wetland Centre Rain Garden 11: 74–78

snow mould (fusarium disease) 4: 24, 24

snowdrop (see Galanthus)

soils:conditioning, by Tony Dickerson 1: 47–49

pest biocontrols 8: 24their influence on productivity 7: 69

Solanum umtuma 5: 14, 14

Solenostemon ‘Saturn’ 5: 35

Solomon’s seal (see Polygonatum)

Solomon’s seal sawfly 6: 64

sooty mould on evergreens 12: 27, 27

Sorbus:apomictic 10: 26harrowiana 10: 65hupehensis ‘Pink Pagoda’ 11: 39

sargentiana 3: 41vilmorinii 11: 39

sowing and planting out winter vegetables 9: 26outdoors 2: 40under cover 2: 41with heat 2: 41


Sparaxis planting 2: 26speckled bush cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima), by Andrew Halstead 11: 33, 33

Speirantha convallarioides 4: 66

spider:garden (Araneus diadematus) 5: 70

ladybird (Eresus sandliatus) 5: 37

spinach beet ‘Perpetual Spinach’ 6: 55

splitting in fruit 5: 35; 7: 24, 24

spring- and summer-flowering plants flowering in autumn 1: 17

spring:flavours 10: 46flowers in Judy and John McNeil Wilson’s garden at Chestnut Farm, Holt, Norfolk, by Tim Ingram 2: 30–34

greens 11: 63pests (early) 3: 28preparations in summer 8: 29

springtails in compost 9: 26, 26

St Valentine’s Day: alternatives to roses, by Lynda Synge 2: 21

Stachys byzantina: its use as a green-roof plant 12: 8, 8

Stapeley Water Gardens, Cheshire: its closure 3: 10

Step-by-Step Veg Patch (RHS e-book) 7: 80

Stern, Sir Frederick 2: 55, 60

Sternbergia:candida 10: 43, 43lutea:

by Phil Clayton 10: 42–43, 42, 43


Angustifolia Group 10: 43

sicula 10: 43, 43Stewartia pseudocamellia 11: 38, 40

Stickland, Sue, on:colourful new brassica cultivars 11: 62–63

RHS trial of broad beans 3: 74–75

Stipa:calamagrostis 10: 49

‘Lemperg’ 7: 53gigantea 10: 52

Stirling Castle: its original garden 3: 8

Stoneley, Bob and Shirley 9: 35

strawberries:60-day 4: 26–27, 75cultivation 4: 74–76extending cropping

times, by John Handford 4: 74–76

in growing bags 4: 76in hanging baskets 4: 76in pots 4: 76in the ground 4: 76in wall pouches 4: 76‘Finesse’ 4: 75, 75‘Florence’ 4: 74, 10: 47, 47

‘Gariguette’ 4: 74; 10: 47‘Mara des Bois’ 4: 75, 75‘Sonata’ 4: 74

Street, Alan (10: 43), on:bulbous irises 1: 30–34Sternbergia 10: 43

Streptocarpus ‘Harlequin Purple’ 8: 12, 12

Strong, Judith (5: 77) and Michael Strong: their south London garden 5: 75–77

Strong, Sir Roy (10: 21), on: reassessing a garden in later life 10: 21reader response 12: 15

Stuart, Rory (12: 19), on: designer gardens at Les Jardins de Métis, Quebec 12: 19

Stuart-Smith, Tom and Sue: their Hertfordshire garden:by Andrew Wilson 3: 32–38

by Chris Young 3: 15subscription botanic gardens in the 19th century, by Ann Brooks 1: 58–61

subtropical plantings at Le Jardin Exotique et Botanique à Roscoff, Brittany, France 1: 38–43

suburban gardens: their history 11: 44–45

sulphur-free treatments for disease 12: 24

sumach (see Rhus)summer bulbs and tubers, planting 3: 24–25

summer flavours 10: 47Sustainable Growing Media Task Force (Defra) 1: 71; 11: 10

Sutera Copia Dark Pink

(‘Dancop19’) (Copia Series) 5: 35

Swallow Hayes, Albrighton, W Midlands: its collection of Hamamelis 1: 50–53

sweet pea (see Lathyrus odoratus)

Synge, Linda (2: 21), on: alternatives to roses on St Valentine’s Day 2: 21

Syringa:komarowii:

and Vladimir Komarov, by Roy Lancaster 5: 64–65, 64, 65

‘Emei Shan’ 5: 65, 65subsp. reflexa 5: 64, 65, 65

x persica 9: 44

TTacca chantrieri ‘Green Mystery’ 8: 12, 12

Tagetes ‘Zenith Red’ (Zenith Series) 5: 35

Tamarindus painted by Aubriet 3: 80

Taraxacum:dandelion exhibit, RHS Show Cardiff 7: 11

microspecies 10: 26Tatton Park, RHS Flower Show (see RHS Shows panel)

Taxodium National Plant Collection 12: 9

taxonomy: its importance to gardeners 3: 19

Taxus contorta status in wild 2: 10

tayberry, training 6: 22teasing roots 12: 20temporary gardens: their drawbacks, by Lia Leendertz 10: 19

tender plants:overwintered 2: 26–27perennial cuttings, by Nick Morgan 8: 55–57

tepals: definition 3: 15alia movement in 6: 13amnocalamus:

crassinodus 11: 67, 69‘Kew Beauty’ 11: 69

thinning fruit 8: 26–27¬omas, Dylan 2: 76¬omas, Graham Stuart 9: 55

¬ompson, Ken, on: gardens as ecosystems 5: 68–72

¬reatened Plants Project 6: 9

tinda 9: 51, 51tits:

blue, by Andrew Halstead 1: 29, 29

great 1: 27, 27Titchmarsh, Alan (4: 21), on: gardening as a career 4: 21

toad 8: 75tomatillo (see Physalis ixocarpa)

SMALLER SPACESbamboos for smaller gardens, by Jon Ardle 11: 64–69

Bennett, Penelope: her rooftop garden in South Kensington, by Phil Clayton 11: 46–47

biodiversity of suburban gardens, by Leigh Hunt 11: 45

domestic gardens: their historic role, by Toby Musgrave 11: 44–45

front gardens initiative in Rochester, Kent, by Daniela Jankowska 11: 52–53

Grant, Sue: her front

garden in Charlbury, Oxon, by Andrew Lawson 11: 56–58

Newell, Karla and Andrew: their courtyard garden in Brighton, Sussex, by Pattie Baron 11: 54–55

Scoular, Aileen: her town garden in London E4, by Martyn Cox 11: 48–51

smaller spaces, gardening in, by Chris Young 11: 17

vegetables for, by Ian Hodgson 3: 62–67

SUCCEED WITH... monthly column by Phil Clayton

Arisaema 7: 70–71auriculas, by 3: 48–49Cornus controversa 4: 56–57, 57

Dactylorhiza 5: 82–83Dionaea muscipula 11: 60–61, 60, 61

Gardenia 12: 40–41Helleborus niger 1: 62–63, 62, 63

Hippeastrum 2: 58–59

Lewisia 6: 36–37restios 9: 66–67Sternbergia lutea 10: 42–43, 42, 43

Yucca whipplei 8: 34–35, 34, 34–35, 35


tomato(es):blossom end rot 7: 24, 24

catfacing 7: 24, 24for smaller outdoor spaces 3: 64

fruit splitting 7: 24, 24lack of light 7: 24late blight 7: 31, 31magnesium deficiency 7: 24, 24

problems 7: 24temperature problems 7: 24

‘Marmande’ 10: 47, 47‘Orangino’ 3: 10, 10Rainbow Blend mix 11: 12, 12

‘Sungold’ 10: 47, 47Tradescant, John 9: 44trees:

autumn colour combinations 11: 34–40

autumn planting 10: 37harvesting fruits 10: 22not to prune 10: 29Red List: update on endangered wild conifers 2: 10

stumps, removing 11: 31their retention of dead leaves 1: 15

Trevarno, near Helston, Cornwall 6: 9

trichomonosis in finches 12: 29

Trillium:planting 2: 26self-seeding (letter on) 9: 16

kurabayashii 6: 15Triteleia ‘4U’ 9: 12, 12Tropaeolum speciosum (fasciation)11: 19

trophic pyramid 5: 68–69tuber: definition 11: 17Tulipa:

displays at Ulting Wick, Maldon, Essex, by Annie Gatti 4: 44–49

displays in Judith and Michael Strong’s south London garden, by Vanessa Berridge 5: 75–77

painted by van Kouwenhoorn 3: 80

‘Abu Hassan’ 4: 49‘Carnaval de Nice’ 4: 49‘Queen of Sheba’ 4: 122, 122

Tunbridge filmy fern (see Hymenophyllum tunbrigense)

Turpin, Pierre-Jean-François 3: 80

Turrell, Nick (11: 23), on: the beneficial influence of front gardens 11: 23

Uudo (see Aralia cordata)Ugni:

National Plant Collection 10: 9

molinae berries 3: 44, 44–45

Ulting Wick, Maldon, Essex: its tulip displays, by Annie Gatti 4: 44–49

Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen 3: 12; 12: 9

untidy gardens, by Nigel Colborn 11: 21

unusual fruits: Physalis 11: 70–71

urban green space as wildlife corridors 4: 72

Urtica dioica nettle wine 11: 87

urui 11: 18, 18

VVan Vemde, Marcel (3: 69), on: growing gerberas 3: 69

Veddw House Garden, Devauden, Monmouth-shire 12: 54–59

Veitch, Harry: role in RHS shows 2: 66

Veitch Memorial Medal 7: 12

Ventnor Botanic Garden, Isle of Wight 4: 11

Venus’ fly trap (see Dionaea muscipula)

Verbascum root cuttings 11: 83, 83

verges, Plantlife initiative on management of 9: 31

vermiculite as a growing medium 2: 46with coir 2: 45with green waste 2: 45with wood fibre 2: 45


Viburnum:infected with Phytophthora 1: 8

x bodnantense ‘Deben’ 12: 90, 90

x burkwoodii ‘Compact Beauty’ 10: 64

opulus 11: 37, 39berries 7: 66‘Compactum’ 11: 40‘Fructu Luteo’ 11: 40

plicatum f. tomentosum Kilimanjaro (‘Jww1’) 4: 12, 12

Vicia faba (see bean, broad)

Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH) 7: 12

vine weevil: nematode control 8: 24, 24

vines (see Vitis)Viola:

downy mildew 1: 26leaf spots 1: 26, 26‘Heartthrob’ 9: 12, 12

Viscaceae taxonomy 12: 64

Viscum:by Jonathan Briggs 12: 61–64

germination method 12: 62

mistletoe and birds 12: 63

mistletoe host plants 12: 62–63

mistletoe in legend 12: 62

album 12: 61, 62–64cultivation 12: 63–64under threat 12: 63subsp. abietis 12: 64subsp. austriacum 12: 64

subsp. album 12: 64subsp. creticum 12: 64

cruciatum 12: 64, 64visitors, garden: attracting

in a smaller world, by Chris Young 12: 13

Vitis:pruning outdoor 11: 26–27

training as a standard 11: 27

coignetiae 10: 56; 11: 36VMH (see Victoria Medal of Honour)

VMM (see Veitch Memorial Medal)

Vortis suction sampler 3: 71, 71

WWaitt, Lucy, on: plant-hunters: an RHS/Garden Museum exhibition 9: 44–45

Wallich, Nathaniel:and Dryopteris wallichiana, by Roy Lancaster 11: 84–85, 85

plants named in his honour 11: 85

wapato 9: 51, 51Warburg, Primrose 2: 55Wareham, Anne (12: 57), and Charles Hawes: their use of plants for visual effect at Veddw House Garden, Devauden, Monmouthshire, by Chris Young 12: 54–59

wasabi 7: 26beds in Dorset 11: 14, 14

wasps, solitary: as garden pollinators 12: 24

Watanabe, Noriko (botanical artist) 3: 78

Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead, Herts: rescue plan 10: 10

water:capture 6: 58; 11: 76–78for wildlife, by Jeremy Biggs 8: 72–76

husbandry at the London Wetland Centre 11: 74–78

in garden features, by Chris Young 8: 17

watering:efficiency 6: 59in direct sun as a cause of scorch, by Matthew Biggs 8: 19

in drought, by Julie

WILDLIFE see also Environment, Living Gardens panels

bat boxes 2: 27, 27bee hotels 12: 24, 24bee-fly, dark-edged (Bombylius major), by Andrew Halstead 4: 33, 33

beetle, green tiger (Cicindela campestris), by Andrew Halstead 6: 29, 29

birds:farmland: decline in numbers 9: 31

feeding in winter 1: 27blue tits, by Andrew Halstead 1: 29, 29

butterflies at Stratford Butterfly Farm, Warwickshire, by Helen Bostock 12: 42–46

chemical use and wildlife 9: 70

common lizard 5: 37, 37compost bins and heaps 9: 26

Cotoneaster as a moth, bird and bee attractor 10: 69

cuckoo tracking 4: 33earwigs (Forficula auricularia), by Andrew Halstead 3: 31, 31

finches, decline in numbers 12: 29

fungi, bracket, by Andrew Halstead 2: 29

gardens:productive for wildlife 7: 67

their role in supporting wildlife 4: 70–73

ladybirds, common British species 6: 24

moth, puss (Cerura vinula):by Andrew Halstead 8: 23, 23

larva 8: 23nectar and pollen plants 9: 22

parent bugs (Elasmucha grisea), by Andrew Halstead 9: 31, 31

Perfect for Pollinators campaign 3: 72; 7: 67; 8: 12

Plants for Bugs project 3: 70–72; 12: 44

pollinator-friendly meadow plantings 12: 46

rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), by Andrew Halstead 10: 31, 31

tawny owls, by Andrew Halstead 7: 33, 33reader response 9: 17, 17


wildlife gardening 9: 68–71its future 9: 69

wildlife pond at RHS Garden Hyde Hall 8: 74, 74

wildlife, studying 9: 70wildlife-friendly plantings 9: 71

woodpeckers, green (Picus viridis), by Andrew Halstead 12: 29, 29

VEGETABLESsee also Fruit panel and Pests, Diseases & Disorders panel

allotments:making the most of, by Lia Leendertz 6: 19

their cost-e�ectiveness, by Emma Bond 8: 20


aubergines: growing outdoors 3: 26

beetroot:e�ect of salt on sweetness, by Matthew Biggs 2: 17


brassicas, colourful new, by Sue Stickland 11: 62–63

broad beans:pests and diseases 3: 26

RHS trial, by Sue Stickland 3: 74–75

‘catch crops’ 5: 30–31celeriac RHS trial at West Dean Gardens, W Sussex, by Sarah Wain 9: 38–39

climbing French beans at The Herbary. by Daniela Jankowska 10: 58–60

Common Catalogue of Varieties of Vegetable Species, EU 2: 73

companion planting: its e�ectiveness, by Matthew Biggs 11: 19

containers 3: 62–67crops:

as culinary seasonal complements, by Nigel Slater 10: 44–47

as perennials, by Lia Leendertz 4: 19

for balconies 11: 46–47for small spaces, by Ian Hodgson 3: 62–67

for the drier east and colder north 3: 28

perennial 10: 26dwarf vegetable cultivars 3: 63

February sowing and planting, by Jo Whittingham 2: 40–41

gherkins, outdoor 5: 31hanging baskets 3: 66herbs for windowsills 11: 26

heritage vegetables: their importance, by Toby Musgrave 2: 72–73

leaf beet and chard, by Liz Dobbs 6: 54–55

oca 4: 12, 12parsley:

e�ect of pouring boiling water into drills, by Matthew Biggs 3: 17

Hamburg 1: 24, 24patio planters: vegetable crops 3: 66

potatoes, minituber: how to propagate 4: 26–27

radish:problems 5: 31summer, by Rebecca Bevan and Mario De Pace 5: 84–86

rhubarb cultivation 8: 26

root crops: forking and splitting 8: 28, 28

salads, baby leaf 2: 27

seeds, choosing 12: 27shallots:

by Ian Hodgson 1: 54–56



sowing in February:outdoors 2: 40under cover 2: 41with heat 2: 41

Step-by-Step Veg Patch (RHS e-book) 7: 80

tomato problems 7: 24unusual vegetables, at Paul Barney’s Berkshire nursery, by Simon Garbutt 3: 43–46

Vegetable Conservation Variety 2: 73

vegetable growing: its degree of easiness, by Lia Leendertz 3: 21reader response 5: 22

wasabi 7: 26beds in Dorset 11: 14, 14

windowboxes 3: 66wines: unusual plants for home brews, by Susanne Masters 11: 86–88

winter vegetables: sowing and planting out 9: 26

Wong, James: his campaign to encourage unusual crops 11: 14

tomato – watering


Hollobone 6: 57–59priorities 6: 58reduction in 6: 59

waterlogging 4: 24; 6: 58–59

Waterperry Gardens, Oxon: its new Contemporary Border 5: 13

Watsonia planting 2: 26waxwing 9: 9Webster, Jonathan (1: 80), on: plans for 2012 at RHS Garden Rosemoor 1: 80

wedding cake tree (see Cornus controversa)

weeds:chemical control 11: 31controlling woody 11: 31non-chemical control 11: 31

weevil, red palm (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) 12: 9

Weigela pruning 3: 53Welsh lichen (Enterographa sorediata) 4: 11

Wentworth Castle Gardens, South Yorks: restoration of its Victorian conservatory 11: 11, 11

wet and dry zones, fluctuating: recommended plants 11: 78

wet summer 2012: its consequences, by Chris Young 9: 15

wetland:gardens 11: 74–78planting combinations 11: 78

whitefly, glasshouse (Trialeurodes vaporariorum) 7: 41, 41

Whitehouse, Christopher, on: border sedums 10: 32–35

Whittingham, Jo, on:Cambo Estate walled gardens, Fife 8: 58–63

vegetables to sow and plant in February 2: 40–41

why we plant, by Mary Keen 5: 27reader response 7: 18

wildflowers:losses of the last 60 years 11: 14

seed 10: 12increasing sales of, by Sally Nex 10: 12

Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust: its Rain Garden, Barnes, London 11: 74–78

wildlife (see panel)Wilks, William: role in RHS shows 2: 66

Williams, Roger (1: 71; 3: 19), on: the RHS view of peat replacement 1: 71

Wilson, Andrew, on: Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith’s Hertfordshire garden 3: 32–38

Wilson, EH 3: 41; 5: 65; 9: 58

Windlesham Trophy, RHS 6: 80

windowboxes 3: 66

wineberry, Japanese (see Rubus phoenicolasius)


winter:container displays 12: 22–23

gardening pleasures, by Lia Leendertz 12: 19

herbs 11: 26plantings:

at Anglesey Abbey, Cambs 1: 64–67

at Michael and Mercedes Hoffman’s Cotswolds garden, by Mary Keen 12: 30–33

retention of dead leaves, by Mike Grant 1: 15

vegetables: sowing and planting out 9: 26

witch hazel (see Hamamelis)

wood fibre as a growing medium:with grit 2: 46with perlite 2: 46with vermiculite 2: 45

Wong, James: his campaign to encourage unusual crops 11: 14

Woodbury Cottage, Reigate, Surrey: its colour-themed garden, by Val Bourne 9: 32–37

Woodland, Dennis (obituary) 9: 10, 10

woodland habitats for wildlife 6: 69

woodlice in compost 9: 26, 26

woodpecker:great spotted (Dendrocopos major), on kniphofia 8: 18

green (Picus viridis), by Andrew Halstead 12: 29, 29

Wookey, Janine, on: Gillian and Peter Regan’s naturalistic garden at Frith Old Farmhouse, near Faversham, Kent 5: 38–42

worms in compost 3: 25, 9: 26

wren 1: 27, 27Wright, Paola (1: 21), on: vermin and wildlife 1: 21

XYZyacón (see Smallanthus sonchifolius)

yaffle (see woodpecker, green)

Young School Gardener of the Year, RHS 9: 74, 74

Yucca:glauca 8: 35harrimaniae 8: 35rostrata 8: 35, 35whipplei by Phil Clayton 8: 34–35, 34, 34–35, 35

Zantedeschia planting 2: 26

Zanthoxylum simulans 3: 43, 44

Zehneria scabra 11: 14

CHRIS YOUNGLetter from the Editor

2012’s wet summer: its consequences 9: 15

attracting garden visitors in a smaller world 12: 13

autumn plantings 10: 15benefits of gardens to wildlife 4: 15

developments in growing media 2: 15

gardening and well-being 6: 13

gardening in smaller spaces 11: 17

improvements in gardening 5: 21

January as a horticultural breathing space 1: 15

people: their importance in the gardening world 7: 17

Tom Stuart-Smith’s home experimentation 3: 15

use of plants for visual e�ect in Anne Wareham and Charles Hawes’ garden in Devauden, Monmouthshire 12: 54–59

use of water in garden features 8: 17

waterlogging – Zehneria scabra

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